Henry Alington

The Reverend Henry Giles Alington (25 July 1837 – 2 December 1928) was an English clergyman and cricketer.

Henry Alington

Personal information
Full name	Henry Giles Alington
Born	25 July 1837 Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England
Died	2 December 1928 (aged 91) Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1859	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 2 Runs scored 12 Batting average 3.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 11 Balls bowled – Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 27 April 2014

Life

Born at Candlesby, Lincolnshire to the Reverend John Alington and Charlotte Bellingham, he was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford.[1][2] His father came from a long line of clerics, a branch of the landed gentry Alington family of Little Barford Manor House, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, and was descended from the Alingtons of Horseheath, an ancient Cambridgeshire family, from which also descended the Barons Alington.[3]

While studying at Oxford, Alington made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1859 against the Marylebone Cricket Club and in The University Match against Cambridge University,[4] scoring 12 runs.[5] He was later an Anglican priest and an Inspector of Schools.[6]

Alington died at the village of his birth on 2 December 1928.

Family

Alington married Jane Margaret Booth (died 1910). Their son Cyril Alington was known as an educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author.[6] His brother Herbert Alington, as well as his brother-in-law Clement Booth, were both first-class cricketers.

References

1. "Henry Giles Alington". www.histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Alington, Henry" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
3. Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 1972, Alington of Little Barford pedigree
4. "First-Class Matches played by Henry Alington". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
5. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Henry Alington". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
6. Card, Tim. "Alington, Cyril Argentine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30379. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• Henry Alington at ESPNcricinfo
• Henry Alington at CricketArchive