Henry Bembridge
English cricketer
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Henry Bembridge (1849–1920) was an English miner from Nottinghamshire and cricket professional.[1]
Life
Born in Bulwell, Bembridge belonged to the Bulwell cricket club, and was regarded as "proficient with both bat and ball".[1][2][3] A report for a club match between Bulwell and Nuthall in August 1877 said "The bowling of Bembridge and Tye for Bulwell was splendid, the former taking four wickets in five balls."[4]
While Bembridge's birth date is given as 1852 in the Who's Who of Cricketers, the Trent Bridge website gives it as 1849, and this date can be identified with a Henry Bainbridge, birth registered in Basford, Nottinghamshire.[5] He died in 1920 in Bolton.[1] The death record registered at Bolton in 1920 for Henry Bembridge gives his age as 71, consistent with the earlier date.[6]
Bembridge was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler who played for Nottinghamshire.[2] He had a Colts trial in 1876.[7] He had another trial in 1878.[1] He made a single first-class appearance, in a County Match against Yorkshire in 1878.[2] Batting at number eleven, Bembridge scored 15 runs in the first innings, and two runs in the second.
By the early 1880s, Bembridge had moved to Wigan as a cricket professional. He was later professional to Bolton Cricket Club. He had in 1878 appeared for the Bolton XVIII in a match with the United South of England XI, for whom W. G. Grace played.[1]