John Glennie, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Glennie

English clergyman and cricketer

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1825

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1903

Profession: cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John Glennie

  • John David Glennie (18 April 1825 – 7 January 1903) was an English clergyman and educationalist who played a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1848.
  • He was born at Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent and died at Croxton, Staffordshire. Educated at King's School, Canterbury and Christ's College, Cambridge, Glennie made little impact in his solitary first-class cricket match, which came against a team of Kent amateurs: he scored one run in his two innings and failed to take a wicket.
  • There are no records of him appearing in any other cricket matches, first-class or non-first-class.Glennie was ordained as a Church of England clergyman after leaving Cambridge, and was a church inspector of schools for some years, later recording his experiences in a book.
  • From 1869 to his death in 1903 he was the vicar of Croxton, Staffordshire.

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