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Valentine Adolphus Titchmarsh (14 February 1853 – 11 October 1907) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Born in 1853 in
Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
, he played eight matches for Marylebone Cricket Club and others between 1885 and 1891 as a right-arm quick bowler and left-handed batsman. His best haul, 5 for 69, came against Cambridge University. He played for his native minor county
Hertfordshire County Cricket Club Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Hertfordshire. The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Champio ...
from 1876 to 1897. Titchmarsh stood in three Test matches, on the Australian tours of England in
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1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
. He served as a first-class cricket umpire from 1882 to 1906 and died in 1907.


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* 1853 births 1907 deaths Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Hertfordshire cricketers English Test cricket umpires North v South cricketers United South of England Eleven cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub