Richard Palmer (cricketer)

Richard Palmer (13 September 1848 – 2 March 1939) was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1873 and 1883.[1]

Palmer was born at Hadlow in Kent in 1848.[2][upper-alpha 1] In 1871 he was employed as a professional player at Fenner's a role he was recommended for by William Yardley, the Cambridge University captain.[3]

Palmer made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1873. He played occasionally for the county between then and 1876 and made two further appearances in 1882 for the county side, making a total of 13 first-class appearances for the county side.[4] He was described in his Wisden obituary as a "good batsman" who generally played as a wicket-keeper.[3] He collected six wicket-keeping dismissals in a match against MCC during the 1875 Canterbury Cricket Week.[3] Palmer went on to play for Staffordshire in five non-first-class matches in 1886.[4]

Palmer died at Lower Halstow near Sittingbourne in 1939 aged 90.[2][3]

Notes
  1. Palmer's Wisden autobiography gives his date of birth as 13 September 1850. Both CricInfo and CricketArchive give it as 13 September 1848.

References
  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 423–424. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. Richard Palmer, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  3. Palmer, Richard, Obituaries in 1939, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1940. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  4. Richard Palmer, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-11-08.

Richard Palmer at ESPNcricinfo


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