John Thayer (cricketer)

John Thayer (cricketer)
John Thayer
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as UPenn baseball player (1879)
Personal information
Full name John Borland Thayer, Jr.
Born 21 April 1862(1862-04-21)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died 15 April 1912(1912-04-15) (aged 49)
at sea, aboard the RMS Titanic
Domestic team information
Years Team
1879–1886 Philadelphia
Career statistics
Competition First-class cricket
Matches 7
Runs scored 138
Batting average 11.50
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 24
Balls bowled 320
Wickets 6
Bowling average 26.83
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 3/17
Catches/stumpings 8/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 September 2008

John Borland Thayer, Jr. (April 21, 1862 – April 15, 1912) was a first-class cricketer and later a Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, who died shortly before his 50th birthday in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. He is the only known first-class cricketer to have died aboard the ship.[1]

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Early life and cricket career

Thayer attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was captain of the baseball team in 1879. A member of a prominent American cricketing family, he played his first match for the Merion Cricket Club as a 14-year old.[2] Thayer was a part of the Philadelphian side that visited England in 1884. During that tour he scored 817 runs with an average of 28, and took 22 wickets for 21 runs each.[2] In his career, Thayer appeared in seven matches now recognised as first-class. Three of these were played for the Philadelphians and four were played for an "American Born" side. All were played at the Germantown Cricket Club in Pennsylvania.[1] In his first-class career, he scored 138 runs at 11.50 and took six wickets at 26.83. His highest score (24) and best bowling (3 for 17) both came for Philadelphia against the United States in October 1883.

Family

On November 9, 1893, in Philadelphia, he married Marian Longstreth Morris (1872–1944), the daughter of Frederick Wistar Morris and Elizabeth Flower Paul. Both her parents were descendants of old-moneyed Philadelphia families. They had four children:

Of the four children, only Jack accompanied his parents on the Titanic.

The Titanic

John B. Thayer as Pennsylvania Railroad vice president

Following his cricket career, Thayer entered the business world. He was a vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.[1] Thayer and his family had been in Europe as guests of the American Consul General in Berlin, Germany. The family boarded the Titanic as first-class passengers. The family had been preparing for bed when the collision with the iceberg occurred.[4] As the ship sank, Thayer made sure that his wife and maid boarded lifeboats, after being told by the Titanic's designer, Thomas Andrews, that the stricken ship did not have "much over an hour to live".[2][5] His son, Jack, dove from the sinking ship and was able to swim to an overturned collapsible boat, where he also survived. However, Thayer Sr. made it clear that he had no intention of boarding a boat and remained on the Titanic as it went down.[6] When all of the lifeboats were gone, one eyewitness reportedly saw Thayer looking "pale and determined by the midship rail aft of lifeboat 7." A short while later, he had gone, so it is likely that he moved to the stern like many other passengers and crew. Thayer's body, if recovered, was never identified.[4]

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