Thomas Whitfield Hornby (2 October 1831 – 1 April 1900) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Thomas Whitfield Hornby | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 October 1831 Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 April 1900 (aged 68) Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 June 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Hornby was born at Stockton-on-Tees. He made three appearances in first-class cricket, the first of which came for a combined Yorkshire and Durham cricket team against Nottinghamshire at Stockton-on-Tees in 1858.[1] His next appearance came for a combined Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees cricket team against Cambridgeshire in 1861, while his third appearance came for England against Surrey at The Oval in 1864.[1] He scored 65 runs in his three first-class appearances, with a high score of 22.[2] Outside of cricket he was a hotelier, with Hornby running the Black Lion Hotel on Stockton High Street in 1892.[3] He died at Stockton-on-Tees in April 1900.
References
edit- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Thomas Hornby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Player profile: Thomas Hornby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "No. 26138". The London Gazette. 15 August 1882. p. 3810.
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