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John George Sheppard DL (30 January 1824 – 28 May 1882) was an English first-class cricketer.

Life

The son of John Wilson Sheppard and his wife Harriet Crump, he was born on 30 January 1824 at Ashe High House near Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was educated at Harrow School, before going matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1842.

Sheppard married Harriet Anna Tyrwhitt Jones, the daughter of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, in August 1846. He later served as the deputy lieutenant of Suffolk in 1856 and the High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1859. He also served as a justice of the peace for Suffolk.

Sheppard died at London in May 1882.

Cricketer

Though he did not play first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Sheppard made two first-class appearances for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1845, against Cambridge University at Parker's Piece and Oxford University at Oxford. The following year he played a first-class match for the North against the MCC at Lord's.

References

1. ^ Welch, Reginald Courtenay (1894). The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893. Longmans, Green. p. 160.
2. "Sheppard, John George (SHPT842JG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "No. 21940". The London Gazette. 14 November 1856. p. 3692.
4. "No. 22226". The London Gazette. 2 February 1859. p. 454.
5. "First-Class Matches played by John Sheppard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

External links

• John Sheppard at ESPNcricinfo

• 1824 births
• 1882 deaths
• Sportspeople from Woodbridge, Suffolk
• People educated at Harrow School
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• English cricketers
• Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
• North v South cricketers
• English justices of the peace
• Deputy lieutenants of Suffolk
• High sheriffs of Suffolk
• Cricketers from Suffolk