Henry Thomas Wroth (6 April 1823 – 26 October 1861) was an English lawyer, a consular official and a

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who played in six

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matches for

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between 1844 and 1846. He was born at

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and died at Bebek,

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. Wroth was educated at Uppingham School and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

. As a cricketer, he was a middle-order batsman and a bowler, though it is not known whether he was right- or left-handed, nor what his style of bowling was; in addition, full bowling analyses have not survived for most of his first-class matches. His best batting was in his only Cambridge University match of 1844 that has been accorded first-class status – the game against the

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(MCC) in which he scored 26 and 34, though MCC won the match by an innings. In 1845 and in his single game in 1846, he was more successful as a bowler, and in the 1845

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against

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he took six wickets, his side winning a low-scoring match. Wroth graduated from

with a

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degree in 1846, and this converted to a

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in 1849; he was also awarded the Hulsean prize for his dissertation and made a fellow of St John's College. He became a lawyer and was

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in 1851 as a member of the

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; he served as master in the supreme consular court at Constantinople and as vice-consul to the

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. He died there after a short illness in 1861. Wroth's brother,

Warwick Wroth Warwick William Wroth (24 August 1858 – 26 September 1911) was a numismatist and biographer. He was Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum and one of the original contributors to the '' Dictionary of National Biog ...

, played first-class cricket in two matches in 1848, one each for Cambridge University and MCC.

References

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