Full name Herbert Richard Peel Died 2 June 1885, Thornton | 1852 Kent National side England | |
Born 8 February 1831 ( 1831-02-08 ) Canterbury, Kent, England 1851 Oxford University Cricket Club First-class debut 12 June 1851 Oxford University Cricket Club v MCC Last First-class 8 July 1852 Oxford University Cricket Club v Cambridge University Cricket Club | ||
Reverend Herbert Richard Peel was an English clergyman who played cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club.
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Life
He was the son of the Reverend John Peel (1798-1875), at the time a prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral but later Dean of Worcester, and his wife Augusta Swinfen (1805-1861). Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, twice prime minister of the United Kingdom, was his uncle.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an MA, he became a priest in the Church of England and in 1860 was appointed by his father as rector of Handsworth, an industrial town then in Staffordshire.
Retiring from the ministry in 1873, he went to live in Buckinghamshire and on 2 July 1885 shot himself in his house in Thornton. His will, proved in London on 28 July, left a personal estate of 97,000 pounds (worth over 9 million pounds in 2015).
Cricket career
His first-class cricket career was brief, playing in nine matches for Oxford University, Kent County Cricket Club and the Gentlemen of Kent in the 1851 and 1852 seasons. He played as a batsman, with a top score of 82. He played in non-first-class matches for a variety of teams, including the pre-county Worcestershire and Oxfordshire clubs and I Zingari.
Family
On 6 September 1853 at Hartlebury in Worcestershire, he married Georgiana Maria Baker (1830-1907), only daughter of the Reverend Thomas Baker, rector of Hartlebury, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Bishop Robert James Carr. They had four children: