Audley Mervyn Archdall or Archdale (6 June 1825 – 27 February 1893) was an Irish amateur

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er. He was born at Riversdale House near Ballycassidy in County Fermanagh in 1826Audley Archdall

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. Retrieved 2018-12-14. and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man.King William's College Register
Retrieved 2018-12-14. Archdall's father was Edward Archdale, a

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(JP) and Deputy Lieutenant who had been High Sheriff of Fermanagh and had built Riversdale House close to the Archdale family seat, Castle Archdale.(164) Archdale of Castle Archdale and Riversdale
Landed families of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2018-12-15. Archdall served in the Royal Artillery (RA). He was commissioned as a

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in December 1844 and rose to the rank of captain by the time he left the army in 1855. Hart's Army List, 1878, p. 568.
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Retrieved 2018-12-14.) 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.Audley Archdall
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-14. Archdall married Sybilla Miles in 1854 and lived at

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in Herefordshire, serving as a JP for the county. The couple had five children. He reverted to the spelling of his surname as Archdale in around 1875. Archdall died at Newent in Gloucestershire in February 1893 aged 67.

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