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Tom Jameson
Personal information
Full name
Thomas Ormsby Jameson
Born(1892-04-04)4 April 1892
Clonsilla, Ireland
Died6 February 1965(1965-02-06) (aged 72)
Dún Laoghaire, Leinster, Ireland
BattingRight-handed
Bowling
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1919–1930Marylebone Cricket Club
1919–1932Hampshire
1926–1928Ireland
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 124
Runs scored 4,675
Batting average 26.56
100s/50s 5/27
Top score 133
Balls bowled 12,559
Wickets 252
Bowling average 24.03
5 wickets in innings 11
10 wickets in match 2
Best bowling 7/92
Catches/stumpings 102/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 November 2022

Tom Ormsby Jameson (4 April 1892 – 6 February 1965) was an Irish first-class cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast and leg spin bowler, he played just twice for the Ireland cricket team between 1926 and 1928 in first-class matches, but played 124 first-class matches in all, mainly for Hampshire and the MCC.[2][1][3]

Early life and education

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Jameson was descended from John Jameson, a Scotsman who founded the Jameson Whiskey Distillery in Dublin.[4] He was born to James Ormsby Jameson and Maria Hone in Clonsilla in April 1892; his grandfather was the cricketer William Hone.[4] He began his education in England at Hazelwood School, where his affinity for sports began.[5] He then proceeded to Harrow School,[6] playing cricket for the school and taking part in the famous Fowler's match (named for his fellow Irish compatriot Robert St Leger Fowler) against Eton in 1910.[7] An all-round sportsman, he also represented Harrow in rackets and fives.[6]

Military career

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After completing his education, Jameson joined the British Army and was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant on probation in November 1912,[8] serving in Ireland,[5] with him being confirmed in the rank in April 1914.[9] He served in the First World War with the 3rd Battalion on the Western Front,[10] with Jameson departing for France in September 1914 on board the SS Lake Michigan from Southampton.[5] Two months later, he was promoted to lieutenant,[11] with Jameson returning to England toward the end of 1915. The following year he was posted to the 6th Reserve Battalion, based on the Isle of Sheppey.[5] Promoted to captain in March 1917,[12] he was seconded to the Colonial Office in September 1917 and served in West Africa with the West African Frontier Force.[13][5] Following the end of the war in November 1919, Jameson returned from West Africa and was restored to the Rifle Brigade February 1920.[14] He spent three years from 1919 to 1922 serving in Ireland, before joining the 21st (County of London) Battalion as an adjutant from March 1923 to October 1924, after which he left the military and returned to Ireland to run the family farm at Cappoquin.[5]

Sporting career

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Cricket

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During military service

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Prior to joining the army, Jameson played club cricket in Ireland for both Phoenix and Na Shuler.[4] Following the First World War, he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Lord's in June 1919.[15] The following month, he made his debut for Hampshire against Yorkshire at Dewsbury in the County Championship, with him making a further eight appearances for Hampshire that season.[15] He also played for the South against an Australian Imperial Forces team.[15] He began playing first-class cricket for armed services teams in 1920, making two appearances for the British Army cricket team against the MCC and Cambridge University, in addition to playing for the Combined Services cricket team against the Gentlemen of England;[15] for the Army against the MCC, he took his maiden five wicket haul with figures of 5 for 22 in the MCC second innings, helping guide the Army to an innings victory.[16] Jameson scored his maiden first-class century in 1921, making 119 for the Army against the Royal Navy at Lord's.[4] In the same season he played a handful of services matches, including for the Combined Services against the touring Australians, alongside two appearances for Hampshire and the MCC. Notably for Hampshire against Surrey, he took figures of 6 for 81 in Surrey's first innings and scored an aggressive 84 in Hampshire's first innings.[4][17] At the end of the season, he played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture at The Oval.[15]

Jameson's 1922 season closely matched 1921 in terms of the first-class fixtures in which he participated in.[15] He had notable all-round performance during his first match of the 1922 season, when playing for the Combined Services against Essex he made two half centuries (54 and 63) and took 5 for 61.[4] Having been elected a Free Forester in 1920,[18] he played for them in 1922 against Oxford University.[15] At the end of the season, he once again featured in the Gentlemen v Players fixture at The Oval.[15] Jameson featured more extensively for Hampshire in 1923, making eight first-class appearances, seven of which came in the County Championship;[15] this uptake in county fixtures coincided with transfer from the Rifle Brigade to the 21st (County of London) Battalion. Although he had transferred regiments, he continued to play services cricket, making three appearances for the Army. He also made three appearances for the MCC, including captaining them in weather-affected match against the touring West Indians.[15][19] Although he featured just once for Hampshire in 1924, Jameson made three final appearances for the Army, made a final appearance for the Combined Services against the touring South Africans, and played twice for the MCC.[15] For the Army, he had made fourteen appearances, scoring 715 runs at an average of 32.50;[20] as a bowler, he took 47 wickets at an bowling average of 17.61.[21]

Post-military service

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The month after his military career came to an end, Jameson was selected to tour South Africa with Solomon Joel's personal eleven, which was captained by Lionel Tennyson, Jameson's captain at Hampshire.[18] He played in ten first-class matches on the tour, including playing three times against South Africa.[15] He had success on the tour against Rhodesia, scoring 90 not out from number nine, and against Orange Free State he made 133, which was to be the highest first-class score of his career.[18] His 430 first-class runs at an average of 39.09 were the second-best on the tour.[4] Despite returning to Ireland to manage his family's farm, Jameson still made himself available to play for Hampshire. During the 1925 season, he made thirteen appearances in the County Championship, in addition to playing for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture and for Lionel Tennyson's personal team against the personal team of Arthur Gilligan.[15] In terms of runs scored, the 1925 season was to be Jameson's most successful, with 599 runs at an average of 26.04.[22] In an innings victory over Warwickshire, he scored 103 batting at number eight.[23] He also took 28 wickets during the season,[24] which included his career-best figures of 7 for 92 against a strong Lancashire batting lineup.[4][25]

During the winter which proceeded the 1925 season, Jameson toured the West Indies with an MCC team captained by Freddie Calthorpe.[26] He made eleven first-class appearances during the tour, including playing in three matches against the West Indies,[15] then just two years away from Test status. Jameson had success on the tour, scoring 536 runs at an average of 41.23,[22] with one century (110) against Jamaica at Kingston. He also made 98 against the West Indies at Bridgetown, sharing in a partnership of 218 for the sixth wicket with Wally Hammond, which the pair made in just over two and a half hours.[18] He played little for Hampshire the following season, making just three appearances in the County Championship;[15] against Somerset, he made an unbeaten 105 to help Hampshire to draw a match they had seemed certain to lose.[4] During the season he made his first first-class appearance for Ireland against Oxford University, scoring 71 in the only Irish innings and taking 4 for 140 when bowling. His previous service in the British Army had complicated any prior selection for Ireland, particularly as trouble instigated by the Irish Republican and plagued previous cricket matches in Ireland at the beginning of the 1920s.[4]

He was again selected for an MCC tour that winter, this time to Argentina. He played four first-class matches against the Argentine national team,[15] scoring 100 runs on the tour.[27] He would not play first-class cricket again until May 1928 when he played for the MCC against the West Indies, followed by a County Championship match for Hampshire against Gloucestershire, a match for the MCC against Wales and a match for Ireland against the West Indies,[15] which was his final match for Ireland.[2] He played three more County Championship matches for Hampshire that year.[15]

His career began to wind down in 1929, though he did play seven County Championship matches for Hampshire that year. He played once for the MCC that year, and twice for them in 1930. He played just twice for Hampshire that year, against Middlesex and Australia, and played his final game for Hampshire in 1932, also against Middlesex. He returned to first-class cricket five years later, playing six first-class matches in India for a team captained by Lionel Tennyson.[15] He died in a Dublin Hospital in February 1965.[7]

In his two matches for Ireland, Jameson scored 121 runs at an average of 60.50, with a top score of 71 against Oxford University, his only half-century for Ireland. He took nine wickets at an average of 25.78.[2] In all first-class cricket, he scored 4675 runs at an average of 26.56, scoring 5 centuries, with a top score of 133[1] for SB Joel's XI[3] against Orange Free State.[28] He took 252 wickets at an average of 24.03, taking five wickets in an innings eleven times and ten in a match twice, with best innings bowling figures of 7/92[1] for Hampshire[29] against Lancashire.[30] His highest score for Hampshire was 105 not out.[3]

Racquets and squash

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Jameson was also a fine racquets player, winning the Army singles championship in 1922, 1923 and 1924 and the doubles championship in 1920, 1921 and 1922. He reached the final of the amateur singles championship in 1924 and won the amateur squash championship in 1922 and 1923.[7]

Death

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He married Joan Musgrave on 11 June 1920.[31]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Cricket Archive profile
  2. ^ a b c CricketEurope Stats Zone profile
  3. ^ a b c First-class batting for each team by Tom Jameson at Cricket Archive
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Edward Liddle's International Profiles: Thomas Ormsby Jameson". www.irishcricketarchives.org. 5 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Captain Thomas Ormsby Jameson". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b Welch, Reginald Courtenay (1894). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. London: Longmans Green. p. 863.
  7. ^ a b c "Wisden – Obituaries in 1965". ESPNcricinfo. 5 September 2024.
  8. ^ "No. 28664". The London Gazette. 19 November 1912. p. 8464.
  9. ^ "No. 28821". The London Gazette. 14 April 1914. p. 3170.
  10. ^ The Rifle Brigade Chronicle. Rifle Brigade Club. 1965. p. 126.
  11. ^ "No. 28980". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 November 1914. p. 9518.
  12. ^ "No. 29928". The London Gazette. 13 March 1917. p. 2520.
  13. ^ "No. 30412". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 November 1917. p. 12664.
  14. ^ "No. 31774". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 February 1920. p. 1775.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "First-class matches played by Tom Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Army, Other First-Class matches in England 1920". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  17. ^ "Surrey v Hampshire, County Championship 1921". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  18. ^ a b c d "T. O. Jameson". The Cricketer. Vol. 46 (5 ed.). 1965. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  19. ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v West Indians, West Indies in British Isles 1923". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  20. ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Tom Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  21. ^ "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Tom Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  22. ^ a b "First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Tom Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  23. ^ "Hampshire v Warwickshire, County Championship 1925". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  24. ^ "First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Tom Jameson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  25. ^ "Lancashire v Hampshire, County Championship 1925". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  26. ^ "The M.C.C. West Indies Tour". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 2 September 1925. p. 3. Retrieved 9 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  27. ^ First-class batting by season for Tom Jameson at Cricket Archive
  28. ^ First-class batting against each opponent by Tom Jameson at Cricket Archive
  29. ^ First-class bowling for each team by Tom Jameson at Cricket Archive
  30. ^ First-class bowling against each opponent by Tom Jameson at Cricket Archive
  31. ^ Devine, Ruth (2009). "Jameson, Joan". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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