Richard Earle

Richard Bethell Earle (4 October 1827 – 2 April 1884) was an English cleric and cricketer.

Life

Watton Abbey today

Earle was born in Driffield, the son of the Rev. John Earle. His father ran a school at Watton Abbey, some miles north of Driffield, from 1830 to about 1840.

Recorded in the 1851 census as a theology student in Joseph Baylee's college, Bidston, Earle was ordained in 1852 at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He went to a curacy in Knockholt, Kent. In 1853 Earle was appointed headmaster of Southwell Collegiate Grammar School.

In 1854 Earle became perpetual curate of Edingley, and in 1858 was he appointed vicar of Barnby in the Willows.

Earle died in Southwell.

Cricketer

Earle was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire, taking part in the Notts v Surrey match at Trent Bridge in July 1861. He had taken part in the first match of the Free Foresters Cricket Club, in July 1856, for their opponents the Pilgrims of the Dee. He played for Nottingham County against Free Foresters in 1859 and in 1860, when he scored freely; and for Free Foresters against Gentleman of Notts in 1871. He played for Gentlemen of the North against Gentlemen of the South in 1858, at the Oval.

Family

Earle married in 1871 Julia M. Beaver, daughter of J. A. Beaver.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. 12 April 1884.
  2. ↑ East Riding Historic Designed Landscapes: Watton Abbey (PDF) at p.3
  3. ↑ "The Earle & Welford Families of Yorkshire, England 1268-1911". Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  4. ↑ The Church of England Magazine. J. Burns. 1852. p. 41.
  5. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory (4 ed.). London: Horace Cox. 1868. p. 42.
  6. ↑ The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England. 1851. p. 304.
  7. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1853. p. 424.
  8. ↑ Post Office Directory of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Kelly and Company. 1855. p. 30.
  9. ↑ Page, William (1910). "The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham". Internet Archive. London: Constable & Co. p. 198. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  10. ↑ "Richard Earle, Cricket Players and Officials, ESPNcricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  11. ↑ "NCCC News : Nottinghamshire Cricketers Part 6". Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  12. ↑ Sutton, John Frost (1880). The Date-book of Remarkable & Memorable Events Connected with Nottingham and Its Neighbourhood, 1750-1879, from Authentic Records. H. Field. p. 516.
  13. ↑ Bedford, William Kirkpatrick Riland (1895). "Annals of the Free Foresters from 1856 to the present day". Internet Archive. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. p. 11. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  14. ↑ Bedford, William Kirkpatrick Riland (1895). "Annals of the Free Foresters from 1856 to the present day". Internet Archive. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. pp. 30 and 36. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  15. ↑ Bedford, William Kirkpatrick Riland (1895). "Annals of the Free Foresters from 1856 to the present day". Internet Archive. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. p. 118. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  16. ↑ Lillywhite, Frederick (1876). Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies, from 1746 to 1826 (1841 to 1848). [Compiled by A. Haygarth]. [Continued as] Arthur Haygarth's Cricket scores and biographies from 1855 to. p. 90. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  17. ↑ The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day, with a Summary of News. 1872. p. 34.