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Batting style
  
Right-handed

Role
  
Cricket Player

Name
  
Anthony Wreford-Brown

1934
  
Oxford University

1934
  
Sussex


Full name
  
Anthony John Wreford-Brown

Born
  
26 October 1912 (
1912-10-26
)
Thames Ditton, Surrey, England

Relations
  
Charles Wreford-Brown (father) Oswald Wreford-Brown (brother)

Died
  
September 22, 1997, St Germans, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Education
  
Charterhouse School, University of Oxford

Anthony John Wreford-Brown (26 October 1912 – 22 September 1997) was an English cricketer. Wreford-Brown was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Thames Ditton, Surrey, and was educated at Charterhouse School.

Wreford-Brown made his first-class debut for HDG Leveson Gower's XI in 1933, making two appearances against Oxford University and Cambridge University at The Saffrons. While studying at Worcester College, Oxford, he made two first-class appearances for the university in 1934, playing against Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, both at the University Parks. He also made a single first-class appearance in that same season for Sussex against Cambridge University at the County Ground, Hove. In total, he made five first-class appearances, scoring 146 runs at an average of 16.22, with a high score of 39.

He died at St Germans, Cornwall, on 22 September 1997. His father, Charles, played first-class cricket, as well as captaining England in association football. His uncle, Oswald, was also a first-class cricketer.

References

Anthony Wreford-Brown Wikipedia