Henry Vane Russell (14 January 1809 – 21 May 1846) 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 active in 1832 who played for Oxford University. He appeared in one first-class match, scoring eight runs with a highest score of 5 *. He was born in Lewisham, Kent, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Russell. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then became a Church of England priest. He married Eliza Tylden in 1834. He was vicar of

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, Shropshire, at the date of his death. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Russell, Henry Vane

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1809 births 1846 deaths Cricketers from the London Borough of Lewisham People from Lewisham English cricketers Oxford University cricketers Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests {{england-cricket-bio-1810s-stub