Henry Edgar Meek (8 October 1857 — 23 June 1920) was an English first-class cricketer and brewer.
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| Full name | Henry Edgar Meek | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 October 1857 Devizes, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 June 1920 (aged 62) Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| 1878 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Alexander Meek, he was born at Devizes in October 1857. He was educated at Harrow School, where he was a noted sportsman who played for the cricket and football teams, in addition to winning the Public Schools' Rackets competition in 1876 with Lewis Jarvis.[1] As a cricketer at Harrow, he was described by Wisden as "one of the hardest hitters ever turned out by Harrow, a good fast bowler and an excellent field at mid-off".[2] A year after captaining the Harrow cricket team, Meek made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Sussex at Lord's in 1878.[3] His only foray into first-class cricket ended in disappointment, with Meek being dismissed in the MCC's only innings for 0 by Richard Fillery.[4] Away from sport, he was by profession a brewer and was President of the Devizes Chamber of Commerce in 1908.[1][5] Meek died in Scotland in June 1920 at Gullane, East Lothian.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Dauglish, M. G.; Stephenson, P. K. (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911 (3 ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 405.
- ^ a b "Wisden - Obitauries in 1920". ESPNcricinfo. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Meek". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Sussex, 1878". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Reports of the Royal Commission Appointed to Enquire Into and to Report on the Canals and Inland Navigations of the United Kingdom. Vol. 3. H.M. Stationery Office. 1908. pp. 66, 201, 588.