Edward Thomas Coppinger (25 November 1846 – 26 February 1927) was an English

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er who played for

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in 1873.Edward Coppinger

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. Retrieved 2017-04-21. Coppinger was born at Bexley in

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in 1846, the son of Edward and Mildred Coppinger. His father was a

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lican and came from a cricketing family.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 123–124.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)Coppinger, Edward Thomas
Obituaries in 1927, ''

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'', 1928. Retrieved 2017-04-21. Coppinger played club cricket for sides in Essex and Metropolitan Kent, including as a wicket-keeper for Blackheath against the touring Australian Aboriginal side in 1868.Carlaw, pp. 124–125. He played twice for Kent in first-class cricket, both matches coming in August 1873.Edward Coppinger
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-21. On his debut for the county against

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he took a

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, taking five wickets for 29 runs in Surrey's second innings. This was the only innings in which be bowled in first-class cricket. Like his father Coppinger was a pub landlord, first in

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before taking over his father's pub at New Cross. He later set up business as a spirit merchant and distiller at Kingston-upon-Thames. He became a local councillor and

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and served as mayor of Kingston in 1890/91. He married Emily Hutchinson in 1870; the couple had five children. Coppinger died at his home at

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in 1927 at the age of 80. Two of his brothers,

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and

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, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coppinger, Edward English cricketers English cricketers of 1864 to 1889 Kent cricketers 1846 births 1927 deaths