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English cricketer and army officer

Thomas Swinford

Personal information

Full name

Thomas Francis Swinford

Born

(1839-05-09)May 9, 1839
Minster-in-Thanet, Kent

Died

23 January 1915(1915-01-23) (aged 75)
Polegate, Sussex

Batting

Right-handed

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1874

Career statistics

Source: Cricinfo, 26 June 2014

Captain Thomas Francis Swinford (9 May 1839 – 23 January 1915) was an English army officer and cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in 1874. Born at Minster-in-Thanet near Ramsgate in Kent, Swinford was a right-handed batsman.

Educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, Swinford played his first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club. His debut was against Derbyshire. He was described in his Wisden obituary as a "good batsman and long-stop" who had made a half-century against Lancashire.

He served as a captain in the 98th Regiment. He died at Polegate near Eastbourne in Sussex in January 1915 aged 75.

References

^ Thomas Swinford, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 513–514. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
^ Capt. Thomas Francis Swinford, Obituaries in 1915, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1916. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
Thomas Swinford, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
"No. 22950". The London Gazette. 21 March 1865. p. 1619.

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