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Full name | Richard Tryon | ||||||||||||||
Born | 31 August 1837 Bulwick, Northamptonshire, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 12 December 1905(1905-12-12) (aged 68) Marylebone, London, England | ||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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1871 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 August 2021 |
Richard Tryon DL JP (31 August 1837 — 12 December 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Thomas Tryon and Anne Trollope, he was born in August 1837 at Bulwick Park in the Northamptonshire village of Bulwick. He was commissioned into the British Army as an ensign in the Rifle Brigade in November 1854. Shortly after he was promoted to lieutenant in February 1855. Tryon purchased the rank of captain in July 1858, later retiring from active service nearly a decade later in May 1867. Tryon made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), captained by W. G. Grace, against Kent at Lord's in 1871. Batting once in the match, he was dismissed by Bob Lipscomb for 7 runs in the MCC first innings.
A resident of The Lodge, Oakham in the County of Rutland, Tryon was nominated to be Sheriff of Rutland in November 1880. He was unsuccessful, with Francis Pierremont Cecil being made Sheriff; however, Cecil went on active naval service and was replaced by Tryon in April 1881. He was made a deputy lieutenant of Rutland in December 1901. He additionally served as a justice of the peace for Rutland. Tryon died at Marylebone in December 1905, following a short illness.
He married Jane Anna Lucy Johnson, daughter of General William Augustus Johnson, in 1867. Two sons, Henry and Richard, were killed in the First World War. A brother was the Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
Notes
- Alfred George Drake won the Victoria Cross for saving Henry Tryon in 1915
References
- ^ "Richard Tryon". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- "No. 21648". The London Gazette. 5 January 1855. p. 37.
- "No. 21665". The London Gazette. 20 February 1855. p. 660.
- "No. 22161". The London Gazette. 13 July 1858. p. 3253.
- "No. 23256". The London Gazette. 28 May 1867. p. 3052.
- "First-Class Matches played by Richard Tryon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- "Marylebone Cricket Club v Kent, 1871". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- "No. 24901". The London Gazette. 13 November 1880. p. 5730.
- "No. 27383". The London Gazette. 6 December 1901. p. 8648.
- Deaths and Marriages. Northampton Mercury. 15 December 1905. p. 8
- Funeral of Captain Richard Tryon. Northampton Mercury. 22 December 1905. p. 5
External links
Categories:- 1837 births
- 1905 deaths
- People from North Northamptonshire
- Rifle Brigade officers
- English cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
- High sheriffs of Rutland
- Deputy lieutenants of Rutland
- English justices of the peace
- Sportspeople from Oakham
- Cricketers from Northamptonshire
- Cricketers from Rutland
- 19th-century British Army personnel
- Military personnel from Northamptonshire