Mortimer Granville Tollemache (12 April 1872 – 27 March 1950) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in nine matches for Cambridge University between 1891 and 1893.[1] He was born at Westminster, London and died at Sudbury, Suffolk.
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| Full name | Mortimer Granville Tollemache | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 April 1872 Westminster, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 March 1950 (aged 77) Sudbury, Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Lord Garlies (uncle) John Head (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1891–1893 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 January 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Tollemache was the eleventh son of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache and one of 14 children.[2] He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, though the directory of Cambridge University alumni does not state that he emerged with a degree.[2] As a cricketer, he played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and appeared three times in the Eton v Harrow match.[1] At Cambridge, he was played in early season matches across all three years from 1891 to 1893, but failed to make much impact, and was not awarded a Blue in any of the seasons. His best score in his nine games was 28, made in the second innings of his second game in 1891, a match between the Cambridge eleven and a scratch side raised by A. J. Webbe.[3]
Tollemache became a banker, based at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. In the First World War, he served as a captain in the Suffolk Regiment's Territorial Force and was mentioned in dispatches.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b "Mortimer Tollemache". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ a b c J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Mortimer Tollemache". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 201. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v A. J. Webbe's XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 11 May 1891. Retrieved 25 June 2017.