joseph, mccormick, cricketer, joseph, mccormick, october, 1834, liverpool, april, 1914, westminster, english, amateur, cricketer, played, first, class, cricket, from, 1854, 1866, joseph, mccormick, educated, bingley, grammar, school, john, college, cambridge, . Joseph McCormick 29 October 1834 at Liverpool 9 April 1914 at Westminster was an English amateur cricketer who played first class cricket from 1854 to 1866 Joseph McCormick was educated at Bingley Grammar School and St John s College Cambridge 1 A right handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club MCC he made 19 known appearances in first class matches 2 He claimed while playing on Parker s Piece to have hit a fast bowler to leg and run nine runs for it In 1856 the year he captained Cambridge University at cricket he was also a rowing blue 1 He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series In later life McCormick was a clergyman Canon of York Cathedral from 1884 to 1901 and Hon Chaplain to Victoria of the United Kingdom King Edward VII and King George V 1 Both of his sons Pat and Gough were clergyman with Pat also being a noted sportsman A memorial to him lies in St James s Church Piccadilly A memorial to Joseph McCormick in St James s Church Piccadilly References Edit a b c McCormick Joseph MRMK853J A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge CricketArchive Retrieved on 17 November 2008 External links EditCricketArchive profileFurther reading EditH S Altham A History of Cricket Volume 1 to 1914 George Allen amp Unwin 1962 Arthur Haygarth Scores amp Biographies Volumes 1 11 1744 1870 Lillywhite 1862 72 This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1830s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Joseph McCormick cricketer amp oldid 1049798527, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
