Thomas William Bury (2 August 1831 – 10 February 1918) was an English

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and a

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er who played five first-class matches for

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between 1853 and 1855. He was born at Ordsall,

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and died at Kilburn, London. Bury was educated at

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and

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. As a cricketer, he appears to have been a lower-order batsman and a second-line bowler, though his batting and bowling styles are not known and with the limited survival of records from his era his precise bowling figures are also not known. He won a

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by playing in the 1855

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for Cambridge against

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, which was his last first-class game. A younger brother,

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, also played cricket for Cambridge University and another brother,

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, played in the first first-class cricket match in the West Indies. Bury graduated from

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with a

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degree in 1856 and was ordained as a

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in 1859 and as a priest in 1860. He served as the vicar of Attenborough with

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, Nottinghamshire, from 1861 to 1875 and then as rector of

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with West Thorpe,

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to 1898; he retired to a curacy of a church in

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in 1900.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bury, Thomas 1831 births 1918 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge People from Attenborough, Nottinghamshire Cricketers from Nottinghamshire People from Bassetlaw District

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