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| Full name | Richard Kirwan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 January 1829 Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 September 1872 (aged 43) Sidmouth, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 6 August 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Richard Kirwan (7 January 1829 – 2 September 1872) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of Captain Richard Kirwan, of the Royal Fusiliers, he was born in France at Boulogne. He was educated at Brighton College,[1] before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] Kirwan made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England against a United England Eleven at Hove in 1853.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Gentlemen of England first-innings for 2 runs by Tom Adams, while in their second-innings he was dismissed without scoring by John Wisden.[4]
He graduated from Cambridge in 1853 and was ordained in the Church of England in 1855. He was the curate of Little Bardfield in Essex from 1855–57 and Gosfield from 1857–60.[1] He moved to Devon in 1860, where he took up the post of rector of Gittisham until 1872. Kirwan drowned while bathing in the sea off Sidmouth in September 1872.[1] He had married Rose Helen Lampet in 1860, with the couple having at least one son.[2]