 Bligh pictured in about 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ivo Francis Walter Bligh | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1859 Westminster, London | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 April 1927 (aged 68) Shorne, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Test debut (cap 38) | 30 December 1882 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 21 February 1883 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1877–1883 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1878–1881 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 22 September 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Azure, a Griffin segreant Or armed and langued Gules between three Crescents Argent[1]
Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley JP DL (13 March 1859 – 10 April 1927), styled The Honourable Ivo Bligh until 1900, lord of the manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British nobleman, parliamentarian and cricketer.
Bligh captained the England team in the first ever Test cricket series against Australia with The Ashes at stake in 1882/83.[2] Later in life, he inherited the earldom of Darnley and sat at Westminster as an elected Irish representative peer.[3]
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.322
- ^ "Ivo Bligh". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard; Burke, Ashworth P. (1914). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison & Sons. pp. 570–571.