William Sidney Oke Warner (29 August 1844 – 22 October 1871) was a Welsh-born English cricketer who played in 13 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1865 and 1868.[1] He was born at Swansea, Glamorgan and died at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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| Full name | William Sydney Oke Warner | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1844 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 October 1871 (aged 27) Laverstock, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Townsend Warner (brother) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1865–1868 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 January 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Warner was educated at home in Devon by his clergyman father and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He had played a lot of cricket for the Gentlemen of Devon team as a right-handed middle-order batsman, but failed to make much impression on Cambridge cricket in either 1865 or 1866.[1] In 1867, however, he scored 43 in his first match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[3] He then retained his place in the first eleven all the way through to the University Match against Oxford University when, top-scoring for his side in each innings with 27 and 34 not out, he played a big part in a Cambridge victory.[4] He played again regularly in 1868 and made his highest first-class score, 50, in the match against Surrey.[5] His final first-class match was the 1868 University Match, though his contribution to another Cambridge victory was limited.[1]
Warner graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868.[2] He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1870 and served as curate at Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight from that year.[2] After a year, however, he died, aged 27.
Warner's older brother The Reverend George Townsend Warner (1841-1902) was a much less successful cricketer at Cambridge. He was also the great-uncle of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the English novelist, poet and musicologist.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "William Warner". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b c J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: William Warner". p. 355. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club". www.cricketarchive.com. 16 May 1867. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 1 July 1867. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 18 June 1868. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "B. Fletcher Robinson Chronology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2024.