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| Full name | John William Haygarth | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 December 1842 Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 March 1923 (aged 80) Boonah, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1862–1864 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 May 2020 | |||||||||||||||
John William Haygarth (3 December 1842 – 30 March 1923) was an English first-class cricketer and magistrate.
The son of John Sayer Haygarth, he was born in December 1842 at Rodmarton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Winchester College,[1] before going up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1861.[2] While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, making his debut against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1862. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1864, making ten appearances.[3] Described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as “one of the best amateur wicket-keepers of his time”,[4] he took twelve catches and stumpings in his ten matches for Oxford, in addition to scoring 81 runs.[5]
He left England in 1865 and emigrated to Queensland, where he became a sheep farmer at Kooralbyn and later served as a magistrate.[1] Haygarth died at Boonah in March 1923.[4] His brother, Edward, also played first-class cricket, as did his second cousin Arthur Haygarth, was also the compiler of Scores and Biographies.[4] Another cousin was William Parry-Okeden, an Australian police commissioner and protector of Aborigines, while his nephew, Francis Gresson, played cricket at first-class level.