Audley Mervyn Archdall or Archdale (6 June 1825[a] – 27 February 1893) was an Irish amateur cricketer. He was born at Riversdale House near Ballycassidy in County Fermanagh in 1826[1] and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man.[2] Archdall's father was Edward Archdale, a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant who had been High Sheriff of Fermanagh and had built Riversdale House close to the Archdale family seat, Castle Archdale.[3]
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| Full name | Audley Mervyn Archdall | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1825[a] Ballycassidy, County Fermanagh, Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 February 1893 (aged 67) Newent, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||
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| 1851 | Gentlemen of Kent | ||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 30 June 1851 Gentlemen of Kent v Gentlemen of England | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 18 October 2008 | |||||||||||||||
Archdall served in the Royal Artillery (RA). He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1844 and rose to the rank of captain by the time he left the army in 1855.[3][4]
Archdall made his sole first-class cricket appearance for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England in 1851 whilst he was serving with the RA. He is also known to have played non-first-class cricket for Royal Artillery Cricket Club, I Zingari and the Gentlemen of Devon.[5]
Archdall married Sybilla Miles in 1854 and lived at Ledbury in Herefordshire, serving as a JP for the county.[3] The couple had five children. He reverted to the spelling of his surname as Archdale in around 1875.[3] Archdall died at Newent in Gloucestershire in February 1893 aged 67.[1]
Notes
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edit- ^ a b Audley Archdall, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
- ^ King William's College Register. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
- ^ a b c d (164) Archdale of Castle Archdale and Riversdale, Landed families of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
- ^ Hart's Army List, 1878, p. 568. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-12-14.)
- ^ Audley Archdall, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-14.