Edward Reynolds (cricketer)

Edward Morris Reynolds (30 August 1830 – 3 April 1908) was an English schoolmaster, clergyman and all-round sportsman who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University.[1] He was born in Clapham, then in Surrey, and died at Ambleside, then within Westmorland.

Reynolds was educated at the Liverpool Institute and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] As a cricketer, he played as a lower middle order batsman and a bowler for Liverpool Cricket Club in non-first-class matches from 1848; neither his bowling nor his batting style are known.[1] At Cambridge, he played in four first-class matches, and two of them were the University Matches of 1853 and 1854 against Oxford University; Oxford won both of those games convincingly.

Reynolds graduated from Cambridge University in 1855 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[2] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England and served as curate of Trinity Church, Stockton-on-Tees from 1855 to 1862.[2] From 1863 to 1876, Reynolds held various posts as a schoolmaster at St Peter's College, Radley, Clifton College and Haileybury College.[2] He then retired to the Lake District where he was Master of Foxhounds of the Coniston pack and had a reputation for other sports, including sailing and ice-skating; his merits in these and more clerical pursuits were the subject of some ill-tempered correspondence in the Yorkshire Post after his death in 1908.[3]