Joseph McCormick (cricketer)

Joseph McCormick (born 29 October 1834 at Liverpool; died 9 April 1914 at Westminster) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1854 to 1866.

Joseph McCormick was educated at Bingley Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge.[1] A right-handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 19 known appearances in first-class matches.[2] He claimed, while playing on Parker's Piece, to have hit a fast bowler to leg and run nine runs for it. In 1856, the year he captained Cambridge University at cricket, he was also a rowing blue.[1] He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series.

In later life McCormick was a clergyman, Canon of York Cathedral from 1884 to 1901, and Hon. Chaplain to Victoria of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII and King George V.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "McCormick, Joseph (MRMK853J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ CricketArchive. Retrieved on 17 November 2008.

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