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Full name | Herbert John Edwin Burrell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, England | 15 November 1866||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 May 1949 Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England | (aged 82)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1889 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1895 | Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 27 July 2013 |
Herbert John Edwin Burrell (15 November 1866 – 22 May 1949) was an English cleric and cricketer. He played in first-class cricket games for Oxford University in 1889 and for Essex in 1895. [1]
The son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885. [2] [3] [4] He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892. [5]
Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891. [2] He then attended Cuddesdon Theological College. [5] He was chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894, and became vicar of Wigginton, Hertfordshire in 1899. [2] He was rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, 1910–34. [6]
During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital. [7]
His younger brother John also played first-class cricket.
Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. [8]