Lewis Hollingworth

Lewis Hollingworth (23 February 1826 – 20 May 1876) was an English cricketer who played in three first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1845 and 1846.[1][2]

Hollingworth was the son of prominent paper manufacturer John Hollingworth and his wife Mary.[3] The family paper mill operated at Turkey Mill at Boxley on the River Len in Kent, and Hollingworth was born there in 1826, one of five children.[4] He played club cricket with one of his brothers Bearsted, Cobham and Penenden Heath as well as for West Kent.[3] In his three first-class appearances he "made little impact",[3] scoring only six runs in the six innings in which he batted.[1]

Hollingworth emigrated to Australia in 1849 and married Mary Cocker, probably the sister of John Cocker who also played cricket for Kent, in 1852.[1][3] The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. He suffered from health problems related to alcohol abuse and died at Adelaide in South Australia in 1876 aged 50 of kidney disease.[1][3]

References
  1. Lewis Hollingsworth, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. Lewis Hollingworth, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  3. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 262–263. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  4. Hollingworth (Turkey Mill) paper, Kent Archives and Local History, Kent County Council. Retrieved 2020-07-23.


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