Thomas Wickham
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| Full name | Thomas Provis Wickham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1851 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1850 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Provis Wickham (born 1810 in Weymouth, Dorset; died on 1 March 1890 in Machynlleth), may be best known as an English cricketer.
Wickham was the son of the reverend William Wickham and Margaret Provis,[1] and brother of the reverend William Provis Trelawney Wickham (Rector of Shepton Mallet, the building of the Wickham Almshouses by his widow, was made possible by a bequest from his will).[2][3] He had two sisters, Annabella (who married James Bennett, Sheriff of Somerset) and Caroline.[4]
According to Bernard Burke[5] the Wickhams (of Horsington) were an ancient Somerset family, belonging to the landed gentry.
In 1835 he married Sarah Hussey.
Little is known about him other than that he was a "gentleman". It is suggested that he spent some time in a debtors' prison.[6]