Thomas_Pearson_(cricketer)

Thomas Pearson (cricketer)

Thomas Pearson (cricketer)

English cricketer


Thomas Sherwin Pearson-Gregory (20 June 1851 โ€“ 25 November 1935) was an English first-class cricketer active 1872โ€“91 who played for Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Oxford University.[1]

Pearson was born in Barwell, Leicestershire,[1] and educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. He inherited Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire on the death of Mrs Catherine Sherwin-Gregory, widow of his second cousin, in 1892 and changed his surname to Pearson-Gregory. He was a deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1899.[2] He died at Harlaxton. His brothers Hugo and Philip Pearson and his son Philip Pearson-Gregory were also cricketers.[1]


References

  1. PEARSON-GREGORY, Thomas Sherwin, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920โ€“2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)



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