Nathaniel Bland (3 February 1803 – 10 August 1865), born Nathaniel Crumpe,[1] was an English orientalist and a first-class cricketer who played for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1836 and 1841. He was born in Liverpool and but later committed suicide in Homburg after losing his fortune to gambling. He appeared in two first-class matches.[2]

Life

He was the son of Nathaniel Bland-Crumpe, who was Irish, originally Nathaniel Crumpe but having taken the additional surname of his mother Dorothea Bland, who resided at Randalls Park, Leatherhead which he bought in 1812.[3] His mother's surname was O'Neill.[4]

Bland entered Eton College in 1818, and joined Christ Church college at Oxford in 1823, where he studied Persian language. He graduated B.A. in 1825.[5][3] He was a bibliophile and many oriental manuscripts at the John Rylands Library can be traced back to Bland.[6] Bland was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Selected works

Notes

  1. ↑ Morning Post, 16 August 1865 p8
  2. ↑ Nathaniel Bland at CricketArchive
  3. 1 2 Loloi, Parvin. "Bland, Nathaniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2613. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ Burke, John (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Univested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. p. 282.
  5. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bland, Nathaniel (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  6. ↑ "Rylands BlogNathaniel Bland".



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