Thomas Calhoun

Thomas Gunston Calhoun (1795 – 6 September 1861) was an English clergyman who played a single first-class cricket match for a Kent XI in 1827.

Thomas Calhoun
Personal information
Full name
Thomas Gunston Calhoun
Born1795
Chichester, Sussex
Died6 September 1861 (aged 65–66)
Goring-by-Sea, Sussex
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1827Kent XI
Only FC17 September 1827 Kent XI v Sussex XI
Source: CricInfo, 10 July 2022

Calhoun was at Chichester in Sussex in 1795, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Calhoun. His father was a "substantial" landowner from the Southampton area of Hampshire and Calhoun was educated at the University of Oxford.[1][2] He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1813 and graduated from Magdalen College in 1817.[2] Aftr graduating, he entered the Church of England, serving as curate at Ferring near Brighton in 1827 and was later vicar of Goring-by-Sea and Upper Beeding.[1][2] He was elected as a Fellow of Magdalen.[3]

Calhoun made a single first-class appearance for a Kent side in 1827, playing against a Sussex XI at the Royal New Ground at Brighton.[4] This is the only cricket match he is known to have played in and he was probably a late replacement for a missing player in the match.[1] He scored a single run in the two innings in which he batted.[5]

Calhoun died at Goring-by-Sea in 1861.[5]

References
  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 100–101. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. Foster J (1888) Alumni Oxonienses, later series, A–D, p. 209. Oxford: Parker & Co. (Available online. Retrieved 2022-07-10.)
  3. University And Clerical Intelligence, The Times, 6 September 1841, p. 5. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2022-07-10. (subscription required))
  4. Thomas Calhoun, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-07-10. (subscription required)
  5. Thomas Calhoun, CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-07-10.


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