Cyril Onslow

Cyril Winnington Onslow (17 December 1815 – 24 July 1866) was an English cricketer who played for a side representing the county of Kent in 1841, the year before the formation of the first Kent County Cricket Club.

Onslow was the son of Arthur Onslow, a clergyman, and his wife Elizabeth and was born at Newington in Surrey in 1815.[1] He played club cricket for Penshurst and Tunbridge Wells Cricket Clubs and for West Kent, generally as an opening batsman.[1] In 1841 he made his only first-class cricket appearance, playing for a Kent XI against an England side at Bromley. He scored four runs in the only innings Kent batted in and was not out.[2]

Onslow worked in the police force, initially as a constable at Sheerness Dockyard, rising to the rank of Superintendent at Tunbridge Wells. He married Mary Hewlett at Barnstaple in Devon in 1848; the couple had two daughter's before Mary's death in 1855.[1] Onslow died at Tunbridge Wells in 1866 aged 50.[3]

References
  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 420. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. Cyril Onslow, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-22. (subscription required)
  3. Cyril Onslow, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-06-22.


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