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| Full name | John Thornhill | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 July 1815 Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 January 1875 (aged 59) Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Charles Thornhill (brother) George Thornhill (brother) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1840–1842 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 May 2021 | |||||||||||||||
John Thornhill JP (14 July 1815 – 28 January 1875) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of the politician George Thornhill, he was born in July 1815 at Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Rugby School,[1] before going up to St John's College, Cambridge.[2] After graduating from Cambridge, he took holy orders in the Anglican Church, being ordained as a deacon at Durham Cathedral in 1838. His first ecclesiastical post was at Boxworth in Cambridgeshire, where he was appointed reverend in 1839.[2] Thornhill was from a cricketing family, with his brothers Charles and George both playing first-class cricket. Thornhill himself played two first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club, both against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1840 and 1842.[3] He scored 19 runs in his two matches, with a highest score of 8.[4] From 1850 he was concurrently the reverend of Childerley, a hamlet to the south of Boxworth.[2] Thornhill was also a justice of the peace for Cambridgeshire. He died at Boxworth in January 1875.[5]