Anthony Cornwell

Anthony Ewart Frank Cornwell (19 August 1929 – 26 August 2017)^[1] was an English cricketer. Cornwell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium.^[2]

Anthony Cornwall

Personal information
Full name	Anthony Ewart Frank Cornwell
Born	(1929-08-19)19 August 1929 Parkstone, Dorset, England
Died	27 August 2017(2017-08-27) (aged 88)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1947–1950	Dorset
1949	Free Foresters
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 0 Batting average 0.00 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 0 Balls bowled 96 Wickets 3 Bowling average 20.00 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 3/60 Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: Cricinfo, 1 June 2011

He was born in Parkstone, Dorset and educated at Radley College^[3] and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Cornwell made his debut for Dorset in the 1947 Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. He played 2 further Minor Counties Championship matches in 1950, against Berkshire and Oxfordshire.^[4] He made a single first-class match for the Free Foresters against Oxford University in 1949.^[5] In this match he was dismissed for a duck twice, by George Chesterton in the Free Foresters first-innings, and by future South Africa Test player Clive van Ryneveld in their second. He took 3 wickets in the match, all coming in the Oxford University first-innings for the cost of 60 runs from 16 overs.^[6]

He later worked as an advertising executive, including as creative director for a New York firm,^[7] and lived in the Seattle metropolitan area at Lynnwood, Washington, United States, where he died.^[8]

He was the elder brother of David Cornwell, known as the writer John le Carré,^[9] and the elder half-brother of the journalist Rupert Cornwell and the actress Charlotte Cornwell.

References

1. "Obituary". Legacy.com. 28 August 2017.
2. "Teams Anthony Cornwell played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
3. . radley.org.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
4. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Anthony Cornwell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
5. "First-Class Matches played by Anthony Cornwell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
6. "Oxford University v Free Foresters, 1949". CricketArchive. from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
7. "Le Carré's Toughest Case".
8. "Obituary". Legacy.com. 28 August 2017.
9. "Scoundrels & Sons -- Author John le Carre Digs Deep in His Own Past for the Themes of His Work | the Seattle Times".

External links

• Anthony Cornwell at ESPNcricinfo