Henry Rogers (cricketer)

Henry Middleton Rogers JP (20 March 1840 – 16 November 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Indian Civil Service.

Henry Rogers
Personal information
Full nameHenry Middleton Rogers
Born29 March 1840
Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Died16 November 1915(1915-11-16) (aged 75)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
BattingUnknown
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 10
Batting average –
100s/50s –/–
Top score 9*
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 27 July 2020

The son of John Rogers, he was born at Sevenoaks in March 1840. He was educated at Harrow School,[1] before going up to Balliol College, Oxford.[2] In 1859, Rogers made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Canterbury.[3] He batted twice in the match, ending each innings' unbeaten with scores of 1 batting at number eleven in the Gentlemen of Kent first innings and 9 opening the batting in their second innings.[4]

In 1860 he joined the Indian Civil Service and in 1863 he was an assistant magistrate and collector at Shahjehanpore, a post he held until 1865. He spent 1865 and 1866 in charge of the settlement at Phillibect, before serving as an assistant settlement officer at Meerut from 1867–70. He held the same post at Azamgarh District in 1873, where he was praised by the Secretary of State for India for his actions during flooding as Azamgarh. His time at Azamgarh was brief, with Rogers moving to Allahabad where he served as a joint magistrate for the city until 1874.[1] He was invalided in 1874 and returned to England, where he later served as a justice of the peace for Kent.[1] Rogers died following a short illness at Tunbridge Wells in November 1915.[5]

References
  1. Welch, Reginald Courtenay (1894). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green. p. 259.
  2. Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. p. 135.
  3. "First-Class Matches played by Henry Rogers". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  4. "Gentlemen of Kent v Gentlemen of England, 1859". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  5. Death of Mr Middleton Rogers. Kent and Sussex Courier. 19 November 1915. p. 3
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