Thomas Swinford

Thomas Swinford
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Francis Swinford
Born	May 9, 1839; Minster-in-Thanet, Kent
Died	23 January 1915 (aged 75); Polegate, Sussex
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
1874	Kent
Career statistics
Matches	4
Runs scored	89
Batting average	11.12
100s/50s	0/1
Top score	50
Catches/stumpings	0/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 26 June 2014

Captain Thomas Francis Swinford (9 May 1839 – 23 January 1915) was an English army officer and cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in 1874. Born at Minster-in-Thanet near Ramsgate in Kent, Swinford was a right-handed batsman.^[1]^[2]

Educated at Blackheath Proprietary School,^[3] Swinford played his first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club. His debut was against Derbyshire.^[4] He was described in his Wisden obituary as a "good batsman and long-stop" who had made a half-century against Lancashire.^[3]

He served as a captain in the 98th Regiment.^[3]^[5] He died at Polegate near Eastbourne in Sussex in January 1915 aged 75.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Thomas Swinford, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 513–514. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
^ ^a ^b ^c Capt. Thomas Francis Swinford, Obituaries in 1915, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1916. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
^ Thomas Swinford, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
^ "No. 22950". The London Gazette. 21 March 1865. p. 1619.

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