Lancelot Driffield

Lancelot Townshend Driffield (10 August 1880 – 9 October 1917)[1] was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Northamptonshire between 1900 and 1908. He was born in Old, Northamptonshire and died in Leatherhead, Surrey. He appeared in 61 first-class matches as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm orthodox spin. He scored 851 runs with a highest score of 56 and took 137 wickets with a best performance of seven for 7.[2]

Driffield was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He returned to St John's School as a teacher in 1911 and taught there until his death.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Venn, John (15 September 2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108036122 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Lancelot Driffield at CricketArchive
  3. ↑ "Lancelot Townshend Driffield (St John's School 1890–1899 and 1911–1917)". St John's School in Wartime.


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