Henry Edward Harris (6 August 1854 – 8 November 1923) was an English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er and cricket administrator.
Harris was born at
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
in August 1854, where he was privately educated.
He was associated with
Brighton Cricket Club, where he was its honorary secretary in 1875 and 1876.
Relocating to Hampshire, Wheeler made three appearances in
first-class cricket for
Hampshire in 1880, making two appearances against
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
and one against the
Marylebone Cricket Club. He scored 53 runs in these matches, with a highest score of 28.
He later returned to live in Sussex, where he was an honorary secretary of
Littlehampton Cricket Club and served on the Sussex committee.
Harris died at
Littlehampton in November 1923.
His son,
Edwin, also played first-class cricket.
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1854 births
1923 deaths
Cricketers from Brighton
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
English cricket administrators