Edward Charles Follett (16 February 1842 – 6 June 1869) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Edward Charles Follett | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1842 Westminster, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 June 1869 (aged 27) Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown-arm roundarm slow | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1868 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 9 May 2021 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Sir William Webb Follett, he was born in February 1842 at Westminster. He was educated at Eton College,[1] before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. While studying law at Oxford, Follett was also a student of the Inner Temple.[2] He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University at Oxford in 1868.[3] Opening the batting, he was dismissed twice in the match by Robert Miles for scores of 0 and 3.[4] Follett died at Birmingham in June 1869.[5]
References
edit- ^ The Eton Register. Spottiswoode & Co. 1905. p. 53.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Edward Follett". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1868". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries. Trewman's Exeter Flying Post. 16 June 1869. p. 5