Henry Wroth (cricketer)
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| Full name | Henry Thomas Wroth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 April 1823 Northchurch, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 October 1861 (aged 38) Bebek, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Warwick Wroth (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1844–1846 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 5 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Thomas Wroth (6 April 1823 – 26 October 1861) was an English lawyer, a consular official and a cricketer who played in six first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1844 and 1846.[1][2] He was born at Northchurch, Hertfordshire and died at Bebek, Constantinople, Turkey.
Wroth was educated at Uppingham School and St John's College, Cambridge.[3] As a cricketer, he was a middle-order batsman and a bowler, though it is not known whether he was right- or left-handed, nor what his style of bowling was; in addition, full bowling analyses have not survived for most of his first-class matches. His best batting was in his only Cambridge University match of 1844 that has been accorded first-class status – the game against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in which he scored 26 and 34, though MCC won the match by an innings.[4] In 1845 and in his single game in 1846, he was more successful as a bowler, and in the 1845 University Match against Oxford University he took six wickets, his side winning a low-scoring match.[5]
Wroth graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1846, and this converted to a Master of Arts in 1849; he was also awarded the Hulsean prize for his dissertation and made a fellow of St John's College.[3] He became a lawyer and was called to the bar in 1851 as a member of the Inner Temple; he served as master in the supreme consular court at Constantinople and as vice-consul to the Ottoman Empire. He died there after a short illness in 1861.[6]
Wroth's brother, Warwick Wroth, played first-class cricket in two matches in 1848, one each for Cambridge University and MCC.
References[edit]
- ^ "Henry Wroth". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ "Henry Wroth". espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ a b J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Henry Wroth". Cambridge, University Press. p. 601. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club". www.cricketarchive.com. 16 May 1844. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 12 June 1845. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "From our own Correspondent: Turkey". The Times. No. 24092. London. 16 November 1861. p. 10.