Edward Wormald
Personal information
Full name
Edward Wormald
Born4 December 1848
Islington, Middlesex
Died16 October 1928(1928-10-16) (aged 79)
Brighton, Sussex
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1870Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 16
Batting average 8.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 15*
Balls bowled 24
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 29 August 2014

Edward Wormald (4 December 1848 – 16 October 1928) was an English businessman and cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match in 1870 for Kent County Cricket Club.

Wormald was born at Islington in Middlesex in 1848, the son of banker John Wormald and his wife Caroline (née Jeafferson). He was educated at Eton College where he played cricket for the school, including in 1867 in the Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. After going up to Trinity College, Cambridge later in the year he played some cricket at university, although not making the University side.[1][2][3][4]

Most of Wormald's club cricket was played for Eton Ramblers.[1] Described in the 1907 History of Kent Cricket as "a straight but short bowler, a free hitter and a beautiful thrower",[5] he mad a single appearance for the Kent county side, playing against the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club during the 1870 Canterbury Cricket Week, making scores of 1 and 15 runs in his two innings.[1][6][7] He had appeared at The Week in 1867, playing a non-first-class match for the Gentlemen of Kent amateur side against I Zingari and played in the same fixture in 1870, taking three wickets.[1]

Wormald married Annette Hood, the oldest daughter of William Charles Hood, at Croydon in 1872. The couple lived at 15 Berkley Square in central London and had three daughters.[1][3] Wormald was a parter in Charles Skipper and East, a firm of printers in London. Annette died in 1925 and Wormald, a wealthy man who left at estate valued at more than £500,000, died at Brighton, Sussex in 1928 aged 79.[1][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 612. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 8 August 2022.)
  2. ↑ Stapylton HEC (1886) Eton School Lists, p. 306. (Available online at the Internet Archive. Retrieved 17 October 2023.)
  3. 1 2 Venn JA (1954) Alumni cantabrigienses, part II, vol. VI, p. 581. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ↑ "Teams Edward Wormald played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Quoted in Carlaw, op. cit., p. 612.
  6. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Edward Wormald". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Kent v Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club, 1870". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Edward Wormald, CricInfo. Retrieved 17 October 2023.


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