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Herbert Burrell

Herbert Burrell

English cricketer


Herbert John Edwin Burrell (15 November 1866 22 May 1949) was an English cleric and cricketer. He played in first-class cricket games for Oxford University in 1889 and for Essex in 1895.[1]

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Life

The son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885.[2][3][4] He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892.[5]

Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891.[2] He then attended Cuddesdon Theological College.[5] He was chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894, and became vicar of Wigginton, Hertfordshire in 1899.[2] He was rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, 1910–34.[6]

During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital.[7]

His younger brother John also played first-class cricket.

Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[8]


References

  1. Charterhouse School (1911). Charterhouse Register, 1872-1910. Vol. I. Propietors at the Chiswick Press. p. 190.
  2. Herbert Burrell at CricketArchive (subscription required)
  3. The Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook. S. Sonnenschein & co., ltd. 1904. p. 91.
  4. "Church Stained Glass". Balsham Parish Council.
  5. The Antiquaries Journal. Oxford University Press. 1930. p. 200.



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