Lieutenant-colonel Edward Taswell (21 June 1826 – 1 June 1889) was an English soldier and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1847 and 1863.[1]
Taswell was born at Canterbury in 1826, the son of George Morris Taswell who was a Justice of the Peace.[2][3] He joined the Royal Artillery (RA) and was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in June 1845.
He served in the RA until retiring in 1870. As a captain Taswell served at the Siege of Sebastapol during the Crimean War in 1854 and was awarded the Crimea Medal and the Turkish Crimea Medal.[4] He was serving at Dover in 1861 in 273 Regiment before being promoted to the rank of major in 1867 and lieutenant-colonel in 1868. He retired with the honorary rank of colonel.[3][5][6]
Cricket
editTaswell played cricket for the Royal Artillery Cricket Club from 1846 to 1867. He played non-first-class cricket for amateur side I Zingari and made his first-class debut for the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side in 1847 during the first Canterbury Cricket Week to be held at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. He made a total of nine first-class appearances, all of them at the St Lawrence Ground, including three for Kent County Cricket Club between 1860 and 1861.[7]
Taswell died at Worthing in Sussex in 1889 aged 62.[2] His brother, Henry, was also first-class cricketer.
References
edit- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 514–515. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ a b Edward Taswell, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ a b Dover First and Last], Dover War Memorial Project, 2007. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ Hart HG (1873) Hart's Army List, 1873, p.56. London: John Murray. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-12-02.)
- ^ The London Gazette, 1870-09-02, p.4040. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ Hart op. cit., p.40.
- ^ Edward Taswell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
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