Thomas Garnier (cricketer)

Thomas Parry Garnier (22 February 1841 – 18 March 1898) was an English cleric. Also a first-class cricketer, he played as a right-handed batsman.[1]

Thomas Garnier
Personal information
Full nameThomas Parry Garnier
Born(1841-02-22)22 February 1841
Longford, Derbyshire, England
Died18 March 1898(1898-03-18) (aged 57)
St Moritz, Graubünden, Switzerland
BattingRight-handed
RelationsThomas Garnier, Sr. (Father), Edward Garnier (Brother), George Tottenham (Nephew), John Garnier (Uncle)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1861–1863Oxford University
1864Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 13
Runs scored 287
Batting average 13.66
100s/50s –/–
Top score 35
Balls bowled –
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: Cricinfo, 26 January 2010

Early life

He was the second son of Thomas Garnier, educated at Twyford School and Winchester College.[2] He matriculated Balliol College, Oxford, in 1859. In 1863 he graduated B.A., and became a Fellow of All Souls' College, until 1873. He graduated M.A. in 1866.[3]

Cricketer

Garnier made his first-class debut for Oxford University Cricket Club in 1861 against the Marylebone Cricket Club. He represented Oxford University in nine first-class matches from 1861 to 1863, with his final first-class match for the University coming against Cambridge University; he was awarded a Blue in each of his three years in the Oxford team. In his nine matches for the University, Garnier scored 199 runs at an average of 15.30, with a highest score of 35.

Garnier represented the Gentlemen twice in 1861 in the Gentlemen v Players fixtures. Additionally, in 1862 he played for the Gentlemen of the North in a single first-class fixture against the Gentlemen of the South. His final first-class match came on his debut for Hampshire against Middlesex in Hampshire's first season of first-class cricket in 1864.

Later life

Garnier was ordained as a Church of England clergyman in 1866 and was successively vicar of South Hinksey, near Oxford, chaplain to the Bishop of London, and then rector in two Norfolk parishes, Cranworth and Banham.[4] He was an opponent of church disestablishment at church congresses and wrote ecclesiastical histories.[4]

Garnier died at St Moritz, Switzerland on 18 March 1898.

Family

Garnier's father, brother,[5] nephew and uncle all played first-class cricket.

References
  1. "Player Profile: Thomas Garnier". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  2. Garnier, Arthur Edmund (1900). "The chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire during four centuries, 1530-1900 : including special memoirs of Thomas Garnier, Dean of Winchester, and his son Thomas Garnier, Dean of Lincoln, and his son Thomas Parry Garnier, Lady Caroline Garnier, etc". Norwich : Jarrold & Sons. p. 94.
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Garnier, Thomas Parry" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. "Obituary". The Times (35470). London. 22 March 1898. p. 10.
  5. Bailey, Philip; Thorn, Philip; Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1984). Who's Who of Cricketers. Newnes Books. p. 374. ISBN 0600346927.
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