John Richard Truswell (14 January 1841 – 6 August 1892) was an English cricketer.

Truswell was born at Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire in 1841. He is known to have played village cricket from 1859 and donated a sovereign to help pay for the establishment of a new ground in the village in 1862.[1] He played in two first-class cricket matches for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in 1868 and is known to have played other matches for the Gentlemen of Nottinghamshire and the All England Eleven until 1871.[2][3]

Truswell was a farmer. He died of dropsy at Farnsfield in 1892 aged 51.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Nottinghamshire Cricketers Part 7, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  2. 1 2 John Truswell, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  3. ↑ John Truswell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-13. (subscription required).


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