Alfred Northey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English clergyman and cricketer
Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1838
Place of Birth: Uxbridge, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 24-Jan-1911
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Alfred Northey
- Alfred Edward Northey (2 August 1838 – 24 January 1911) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and for another amateur side between 1857 and 1860.
- He was born at Uxbridge, Middlesex and died at Torquay, Devon.Northey was the son of Colonel W.B.
- Northey and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
- He first played first-class cricket in a match for "the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex" against the "Gentlemen of England" in 1857; as an opening batsman he made 23 and 32.
- He played only a single game for Cambridge University team in 1858, and in 1859, his single first-class match was the annual University Match against Oxford University in which he batted in the lower order.
- In 1860, he played three times for the university team and in the first of these appearances, against the Cambridge Town Club, he made an innings of 40 which was his highest first-class score.
- His last first-class game the University Match of 1860 in which he batted at No 9 in the first innings and did not bat at all in the second innings, when Cambridge won a very low-scoring game by three wickets.Northey graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1861 and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England.
- He was curate at All Saints' Church, Huntingdon from 1862 to 1864 and at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London from 1864 to 1869.
- From 1870 he was principal of Hockerill Training College until he became vicar of Offley in Hertfordshire in 1881.
- Northey became the vicar at Rickmansworth in 1884 and remained there until 1898 when he retired; he was also rural dean of Watford from 1896.
- After retirement, he briefly acted as a chaplain in Tangier, Morocco and after settling in Devon was a licensed priest in the diocese of Exeter, though without an incumbency.As a student to 1861 Northey was a captain in the 3rd Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers, part of the Volunteer Force.
- While at Hockerill, he published a book in 1872 on Pupil Teachers: Their Training and Instruction.
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