Joseph Bowles (cricketer)

Joseph Bowles (christened 6 July 1798 – 8 February 1879) was an English first-class cricketer active 1834–35 who played for Oxford University. He was born in Farringdon, Berkshire and died in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. He appeared in two first-class matches.[1]

Bowles was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College). After graduating he became a Church of England priest and was rector of Woodstock, Oxfordshire from 1841 to 1847, then Stanton Lacy in Shropshire from 1847 until his death.[2][3] He married Ellen Mary Walker, daughter of Sir William Walker of Leicestershire.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Joseph Bowles at CricketArchive
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bowles, Joseph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Shropshire Parish registers". Shropshire Parish Register Society. 1903. p. iv.
  4. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Colburn. 1847. p. `1492.


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