Captain Thomas Francis Swinford (9 May 1839 – 23 January 1915) was an English army officer and cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in 1874. Born at Minster-in-Thanet near Ramsgate in Kent, Swinford was a right-handed batsman.[1][2]
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| Full name | Thomas Francis Swinford | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 9, 1839 Minster-in-Thanet, Kent | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 January 1915 (aged 75) Polegate, Sussex | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| 1874 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 June 2014 | |||||||||||||||
Educated at Blackheath Proprietary School,[3] Swinford played his first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club. His debut was against Derbyshire.[4] He was described in his Wisden obituary as a "good batsman and long-stop" who had made a half-century against Lancashire.[3]
He served as a captain in the 98th Regiment.[3][5] He died at Polegate near Eastbourne in Sussex in January 1915 aged 75.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Thomas Swinford, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 513–514. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ a b c Capt. Thomas Francis Swinford, Obituaries in 1915, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1916. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ Thomas Swinford, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
- ^ "No. 22950". The London Gazette. 21 March 1865. p. 1619.
External links
editThomas Swinford at ESPNcricinfo
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