William Lockhart (cricketer)
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Full name | William Peddie Lockhart | ||||||||||||||
Born | 15 October 1835 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
Died | 12 August 1893 Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | (aged 57)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 September 2019 |
William Peddie Lockhart (15 October 1835 – 12 August 1893) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and preacher.
Lockhart was born at Kirkcaldy in October 1835. He later moved to Liverpool where he was a merchant.[1] He began his evangelical baptism in Liverpool at Hope Hall, which he rented on a weekly basis.[2] Lockhart was regarded as one of the finest wicket-keepers of the North of England,[3] he played his club cricket for Liverpool Cricket Club in the 1850s.[4] He made his debut in first-class cricket for the North in the North v South fixture of 1857 at Nottingham.[5] He made two first-class appearances in 1858 for the against the , before appearing twice for the Gentlemen of the North versus the Gentlemen of the South in 1859, in addition to playing for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture. His final first-class appearance came for against the England Eleven to North America in 1859 at Manchester.[5] In seven first-class matches, he scored 65 runs and behind the stumps he took 8 catches and made 8 stumpings.[4] Long after his first-class cricket career had finished, Lockhart was still a merchant preacher in Liverpool. Having outgrown Hope Hall, he moved to Hengler's Circus, where he welcomed the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody in 1867. Lockhart raised £7,000 in 1870 for the construction of , opened by Charles Spurgeon in 1871.[2] His mission was to convert the urban poor, but a critic of Lockhart's noted that his congregations mostly composed 'smug shopkeepers'.[1] However, by 1886 his sermons were attracting roughly 1,500 people.[2] He returned to Scotland in the 1890s, where he died in August 1893 at Ballater, Aberdeenshire.
References[]
- ^ a b Watts, Michael R. (1978). The Dissenters: The crisis and conscience of nonconformity. Vol. 3. Clarendon Press. p. 140. ISBN 0198229690.
- ^ a b c Brown, Sarah; de Figueiredo, Peter (2015). Religion and Place: Liverpool's historic places of worship. Historic England. p. 42. ISBN 978-1848023161.
- ^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1893". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Player profile: William Lockhart". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by William Lockhart". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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- 1835 births
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- People from Kirkcaldy
- Scottish merchants
- Scottish Baptist ministers
- Scottish cricketers
- North v South cricketers
- Gentlemen of the North cricketers
- Gentlemen cricketers
- 19th-century Scottish businesspeople