Thomas Bury (cricketer)

Thomas William Bury (2 August 1831 – 10 February 1918) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played five first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1853 and 1855.[1] He was born at Ordsall, Nottinghamshire and died at Kilburn, London.

Bury was educated at Winchester College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he appears to have been a lower-order batsman and a second-line bowler, though his batting and bowling styles are not known and with the limited survival of records from his era his precise bowling figures are also not known.[2] He won a Blue by playing in the 1855 University Match for Cambridge against Oxford University, which was his last first-class game. A younger brother, William, also played cricket for Cambridge University and another brother, Frederick, played in the first first-class cricket match in the West Indies.

Bury graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1856 and was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1859 and as a priest in 1860.[3] He served as the vicar of Attenborough with Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, from 1861 to 1875 and then as rector of Aisthorpe with West Thorpe, Lincolnshire to 1898; he retired to a curacy of a church in Hastings, East Sussex in 1900.[3]