John Charles Peace Thompson (14 April 1870 – 31 December 1945) 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. Thompson's batting style is unknown. He was born at

Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

. Thompson made a single first-class appearance for Liverpool and District against Yorkshire in 1892 at

Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool __NOTOC__ Aigburth Cricket Ground in Liverpool, England, is the home of Liverpool Cricket Club. The club was founded in 1807 and is the oldest amateur sports club in Merseyside. The ground hosted its maiden first-class cricket match in 1881, a fi ...

. In a match which Liverpool and District won by 6 wickets, Thompson batted once, scoring 14 runs in Liverpool and District's first-innings before he was dismissed by

Thomas Wardall Thomas Arthur Wardall (19 April 1862 – 20 December 1932) was an English first-class cricketer, who played forty five matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within ...

. He died at

Tarset Tarset is a civil parish in Northumberland, England, created in 1955 from parts of Bellingham, Tarset West and Thorneyburn parishes. It is west-north-west of Bellingham. Today it shares a parish council with the adjacent parish of Greystea ...

, Northumberland on 31 December 1945. His brother-in-law Lionel Garnett also played first-class cricket.

References

External links

John Thompson
at ESPNcricinfo
John Thompson
at CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, John 1870 births 1945 deaths Sportspeople from Chester English cricketers Liverpool and District cricketers