Charles Waller (cricketer)

Charles Edward Waller (September 1832 – 9 March 1886) was an English first-class cricketer.

Charles Waller
Personal information
Full name
Charles Edward Waller
BornSeptember 1832
Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk, England
Died9 March 1886 (aged 53)
at sea, Atlantic Ocean
BattingUnknown
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 20
Batting average 6.66
100s/50s –/–
Top score 12
Balls bowled 0
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings -/-
Source: Cricinfo, 22 December 2018

The son of the Reverend Charles Waller, Sr.,[1] he was born at Trimley St. Mary in September 1832. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1851.[1] He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1855.[2] He made a further first-class appearance for the Surrey Club in 1858, also against the MCC.[2] He scored a total of 20 runs across his two first-class matches, with a highest score of 12.[3] By 1886, he was the vicar of Humberstone near Leicester.[4] He was a passenger aboard the SS Oregon in March 1886, along with his wife and son, when it collided with an unidentified schooner 32 miles from Jones Inlet, New York. While making it to a lifeboat he became ill, fell overboard and drowned.[4]

References
  1. Venn, John (15 September 2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-1108036146.
  2. "First-Class Matches played by Charles Waller". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  3. "Player profile: Charles Waller". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  4. "Oregon Wrecked". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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