Henry Finch (cricketer)
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| Full name | Henry Randolph Finch | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1842 Paddington, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 December 1935 (aged 93) Oakham, Rutland, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1866 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 February 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Henry Randolph Finch JP (18 October 1842 – 6 December 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of Henry Finch, he was born in October 1842 at Paddington. He was educated at Harrow School,[1] before matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford in 1861, where he graduated B.A. in 1866.[2] He played first-class cricket for Southgate against Oxford University in 1864 at Oxford, before playing a first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire at Southampton in 1866.[3] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in April 1868 and practised on the Midland Circuit.[4] Finch also served as a land agent and a justice of the peace for Rutland.[1] He died in Rutland at Oakham in December 1935.
