Edgar Francis Talman Sheldrake (18 January 1864 – 14 December 1950) was an English

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er. Sheldrake was a right-handed

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and a

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. Edgar Sheldrake was born in

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in 1864, the son of William Henry Sheldrake (1816–1885), a stationer and printer of ''Sheldrake's Aldershot Military Gazette'', and Caroline Ann née Beadnell (1821–1885); he was baptised at

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in Aldershot in March 1864. As a young man he joined his father's publishing and printing business in Aldershot. Sheldrake represented

in three first-class matches. The first came in 1884 against Sussex. His final first-class match came against Surrey in the 1885 season, which was to be Hampshire's final season as a first-class county until the

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. On 3 February 1900 he married Lucy Maunde (1862–1935) at St Bartholomew's church in

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in Surrey.Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Edgar Francis Talman Sheldrake
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There were no children from the marriage. After his cricketing career he continued to work for the family newsagent and stationers business.1911 England Census for Edgar Francis Talman Sheldrake
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Sheldrake died in

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, Surrey on 14 December 1950.

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