John Athawes
Personal information
Full name
John Thomas Athawes
Born8 December 1837
Loughton, Buckinghamshire, England
Died3 October 1915(1915-10-03) (aged 77)
Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1860Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 12
Batting average 12.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 12
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 June 2021

John Thomas Athawes JP (8 December 1837 – 3 October 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

Personal life & education

The son of The Reverend John Athawes, he was born in December 1837 at Loughton, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Winchester College,[1] before going up to Clare College, Cambridge.[2] After graduating from Cambridge, Athawes took holy orders in the Anglican Church in 1862, being ordained as a deacon. He took his curacy at Loughton in the same year, which he held until 1864. For the next three years he held the curacy at East Hendred.[1] Athawes was appointed the headmaster of St John's Middle School at Kennington in 1867, a post he remained in until 1881. He spent 1882 in Italy as a chaplain at Bologna.[2] Athawes returned to Loughton in 1883 to take up the post of reverend, which he held until his death at Loughton at Tenbury Wells in October 1915.[3] Beside his ecclesiastical duties, Athawes was the diocesan inspector of schools for Oxford and was a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire. He was also chairman of both the Newport Pagnell Board of Guardians and the Rural District Council.[2]

Cricket career

He did not play cricket while attending Winchester, but did play for Cambridge University Cricket Club in minor matches.[3] However, while studying at Cambridge he did make a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1860.[4] He batted once in the match, opening the batting in the MCC first innings and scoring 12 runs, before being dismissed by Edward Fawcett.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Winchester College, 1836–1906: A Register. P. and G. Wells. 1907. p. 129.
  2. 1 2 3 Venn, John (1944). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 89.
  3. 1 2 "Wisden – Obituaries in 1915". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by John Athawes". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1860". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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