Hugh Richard Bromley-Davenport (18 August 1870 – 23 May 1954) 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 str ...
er who played
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...
for
Cambridge University
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...
between
1892
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States.
* February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado.
* February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies fo ...
and
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
and
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...
between
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that ...
and
1898
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
. He played four
Test matches for
England
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, all in
South Africa
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.
Life and career
Bromley-Davenport was educated at
Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England.
Eton may also refer to:
Places
*Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England
* Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States
* Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...
and
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...
. He took part in four overseas tours in the 1890s: to the West Indies with
R. S. Lucas' XI in 1894–95 and
Lord Hawke's XI in 1896–97, and to South Africa with the English Test team in
1895–96, when he played three Tests, and
1898–99, when he played one Test.
He was the most successful bowler on the tour of the West Indies in 1894–95, taking 56 wickets at 10.01, including his best first-class figures of 6 for 22 and 7 for 17 in the victory over
Demerara
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. In the second innings he took the first first-class
hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
in the West Indies.
His best figures in England were 7 for 91 for
A. J. Webbe
Alexander Josiah Webbe (16 January 1855 – 19 February 1941) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University and Middlesex. He also played one Test match for England.
After being schooled at Harrow School, he went on to Trinity College, Oxfo ...
's XI against Cambridge University in 1898. His best Test performance was with the bat, when he made a hard-hitting 84, adding 154 for the eighth wicket with
Charles Wright, in the victory over South Africa in
Johannesburg
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in March 1896.
He became a stockbroker in the
City of London
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. He married Muriel Coomber in London in 1906; they had two children.
[ He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Engineers in the ]First World War
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, and was awarded the OBE for his services.
Bromley-Davenport shares the record with Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
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for the longest surname among Test cricketers.[
]
References
External links
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CricketArchive page on Hugh Bromley-Davenport
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1870 births
1954 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge University cricketers
England Test cricketers
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
I Zingari cricketers
Cheshire cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Lord Hawke's XI cricketers
R. S. Lucas' XI cricketers
A. J. Webbe's XI cricketers
People from the Borough of Cheshire East
Cricketers from Cheshire