Oswald Wright

Oswald Walter Wright (20 March 1877 – 19 December 1933) played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1899 and Somerset in 1902.^[1] He was born at Maxton, Dover, Kent and died at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Wright was educated at Malvern College and Selwyn College, Cambridge; at school he played for the first eleven at cricket and captained the soccer team.^[2] He played in two first-class cricket matches as a left-arm opening bowler while at Cambridge in 1899, taking one wicket in each of them; his better bowling figures, one for 16, and his highest first-class score of 14, made as a tail-end batsman, came in the first of these, the match against Surrey.^[3] He appeared in a single match for Somerset in 1902, batting at No 11 and failing to score in either innings; he bowled just two overs and did not take a wicket in this match.^[4]

The Malvern Register compiled in 1904 records Wright's family as living in Wickwar, Gloucestershire and that he was employed, after graduation, as an assistant master at a preparatory school, Stone House School, Broadstairs, Kent.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Oswald Wright". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3909/3909.html. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "The Malvern Register 1865-1904". www.archive.org. http://www.archive.org/stream/malvernregister00malgoog/malvernregister00malgoog_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
3. ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Surrey". www.cricketarchive.com. 1899-05-25. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5181.html. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
4. ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1902-07-24. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6027.html. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 

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Name	Wright, Oswald
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Date of birth	1877-03-20
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Date of death	1933-12-19
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