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| Full name | Thomas Moncreiffe | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 January 1822 Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 August 1879 (aged 57) Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1841–1852 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 30 September 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet (9 January 1822 – 16 August 1879) was a Scottish first-class cricketer.
The son of Sir David Moncreiffe, 6th Baronet, he was born in January 1822 at Moncreiffe House near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. He was educated at Harrow School.[1] He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Lord's in 1841.[2] He served as a deputy lieutenant of Perthshire in 1846.[3] He served in the
The son of Colonel Alexander Boddam-Whetham and his wife, Maria, Boddam-Whetham was born at Kirklington Hall in May 1843.[4] He was educated at Eton College, though he did not represent the college XI in cricket.[5] He did however make a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South at Beeston in 1870.[6] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in the Gentlemen of the North first-innings by W. G. Grace, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by his brother, Fred Grace, for 5 runs.[7]
During the 1870s he became a well known naturalist and traveller. He toured the western United States in the early 1870s, which included an ascent of Mount Shasta.[8] From there he departed for Australia, and from Sydney he took a boat to Honolulu, arriving in July 1874. During his tour of the Hawaiian Islands, he attempted unsuccesfully to recover a specimen of Moho nobilis for the British Museum, a now extinct bird which was endemic to the islands. After travelling to Fiji and Samoa, he returned to Hawaii and was this time successful in recovering a pair of the birds. He returned to London in 1876.[8] He left for a tour of Central and South America in 1877, setting out to climb Mount Roraima in British Guiana, arriving in Georgetown in January 1878. He joined a colonial government led exhibition to reach the summit of the mountain, but after a long trek through the rainforest they were unsuccessful.[8] He continued his travels around Central America, returning to London in 1879. He published several accounts of his travels.[8] Following his travels in the 1870s, little is known of his later life, besides his marriage to Harriet Manning in November 1882 at North Shore, Sydney.[4] He died at Folkstone in March 1918.[8]
References
edit- ^ Welch, Reginald Courtenay (1894). The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893. Vol. 6. Longmans, Green. p. 150.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Thomas Moncreiffe". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ^ "No. 20560". The London Gazette. 13 January 1846. p. 126.
- ^ a b "John Whetham Boddam-Whetham". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Wisden - Other deaths in 1918". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by John Boddam-Whetham". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Gentlemen of the North v Gentlemen of the South, 1870". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Troelstra, Anne S. (2017). Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives. BRILL. pp. 73–4. ISBN 978-9004343788.