Medhurst Troughton
Medhurst Albert Troughton (25 December 1839 – 1 January 1912) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent and for amateur teams between 1862 and 1873.[1] He was born in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent and died at Kensington, London. He was a cousin of Lionel Troughton, who captained Kent before and after the First World War.[2]
Troughton was a right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional right-arm under-arm slow bowler. He played in a couple of matches for the amateur "Gentlemen of Kent" side from 1862, but from 1864 to 1870 played in most of the first-class matches for the main Kent team. His best year as a batsman was 1865, when he scored 289 runs at an average of 24.08; the runs included his highest score, an innings of 87 in the match against Yorkshire.[3] He returned to the Kent side for a single match against an eleven raised by W. G. Grace in 1873.[1]
A brief obituary in The Times in 1912 credited him with the promotion of cricket in the Gravesend area and the secretaryship of "the Mid-Kent club".[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Medhurst Troughton". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 539–540. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 8 August 2022.)
- ^ "Scorecard: Kent v Yorkshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 17 August 1865. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ "Mr M. A. Troughton". The Times. No. 39786. London. 4 January 1912. p. 11.