Henry Blomfield Burnell (14 November 1853 — 19 October 1910) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
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| Full name | Henry Blomfield Burnell | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 November 1853 Upper Clapton, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 October 1910 (aged 56) St John's Wood, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1879 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 September 2021 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Blomfield Burnell, he was born at Upper Clapton in November 1853. He was educated at Harrow School,[1] before going up to Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] A student of Lincoln's Inn, he was called to the bar in May 1879.[3] In the same year he made played in a first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent at Tunbridge Wells.[4] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for a single run by Edward O'Shaughnessy.[5] Burnell died at St John's Wood in October 1910.
References
edit- ^ Dauglish, M. G.; Stephenson, P. K. (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911 (3 ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 412.
- ^ Venn, John (1944). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 458.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar. Reeves and Turner. p. 67.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Burnell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ "Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1879". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 September 2021.