Francis MacKinnon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Cricket player of England.
Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1848
Place of Birth: Paddington, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 27-Feb-1947
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Francis MacKinnon
- Francis Alexander MacKinnon, The 35th MacKinnon of MacKinnon DL (9 April 1848 – 27 February 1947) was the longest-lived Test cricketer until being surpassed by Eric Tindill of New Zealand on 8 November 2009.
- MacKinnon, who was 98 years, 324 days old when he died, was the oldest-ever first-class cricketer at that time.
- MacKinnon was born at Acryse Park, near Folkestone in Kent, and was educated at Harrow School.
- An amateur cricketer, he joined the MCC in 1870, and played first-class cricket from 1870 to 1885.
- He attended St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1871.
- He played cricket for Cambridge University, winning his blue in 1870.
- He played in the famous University match in 1870, known as Cobden's Match, in which Cambridge's Frank Cobden conceded only one run and took three wickets in the last four-ball over to win the match by two runs. MacKinnon played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1875.
- He toured Australia with Lord Harris in 1878–79, and played his only Test on this tour, making 0 and 5 in his two innings, bowled by Fred Spofforth twice.
- His first dismissal was the second in the first Test hat-trick.
- He was President of Kent in 1889. In 1888, MacKinnon married the Hon.
- Emily Hood.
- They had one son and one daughter.
- His wife died in 1934. He was a captain in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry from 1871 to 1893, promoted to honorary major in 1886 and resigned, but was re-appointed captain on 14 March 1900.
- He was a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Kent from 1900 to 1902.
- On the death of his father in 1903, he became The MacKinnon of Mackinnon, the 35th Chief of the Mackinnon Clan.
- He died at his home, Drumduan, in Forres in Morayshire, Scotland.
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