Henry Finch (cricketer)

Henry Finch
Personal information
Full name	Henry Randolph Finch
Born	18 October 1842; Paddington, Middlesex, England
Died	6 December 1935 (aged 93); Oakham, Rutland, England
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
1866	Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Matches	2
Runs scored	34
Batting average	17.00
100s/50s	–/–
Top score	19
Catches/stumpings	–/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 26 February 2020

Henry Randolph Finch JP (18 October 1842 – 6 December 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of Henry Finch, he was born in October 1842 at Paddington. He was educated at Harrow School,^[1] before matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford in 1861, where he graduated B.A. in 1866.^[2] He played first-class cricket for Southgate against Oxford University in 1864 at Oxford, before playing a first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire at Southampton in 1866.^[3] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in April 1868 and practised on the Midland Circuit.^[4] Finch also served as a land agent and a justice of the peace for Rutland.^[1] He died in Rutland at Oakham in December 1935.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Stogdon, John Hubert (1925). The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 86.
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Finch, Henry Randolph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Finch". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar. Reeves and Turner. p. 20.

This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1840s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.