Henry Vernon (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British cricketer
Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1828
Date of Death: 19-Feb-1855
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Henry Vernon (cricketer)
- Henry Vernon (16 December 1828 – 19 February 1855) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and other amateur teams between 1850 and 1854.
- His birthplace is not known, but he died at Tixover, Rutland. Vernon's family owned Hilton Hall in Staffordshire, and he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
- He was in the Harrow cricket eleven for five years from 1845 to 1849 as a middle-order batsman (sometimes an opener) and a bowler – he was 20 at the time of his fifth Eton v Harrow match.
- Neither his batting nor his bowling style is known.
- He made his first-class cricket debut while still at school by appearing in a match for the Gentlemen of England against a Gentlemen of Kent team in August 1848.
- He played regularly for Cambridge University from 1850 to 1852, appearing three times in the University Match against Oxford University and captaining the side in his final year.
- That 1852 University Match provided him with his best first-class bowling figures: he took three wickets, though the full bowling analysis has not survived, and his personal success was insufficient to prevent a crushing innings defeat for his Cambridge side.
- His best batting had come earlier in a match for Cambridge University against the MCC, when he made 59, his only half-century.
- From the end of the university term in 1850, he played for a variety of other amateur teams, rarely making much impact, and continued to do so after he left university: he played in the North v South annual match twice, and four times in Gentlemen v Players fixtures.
- He also appeared four times for teams calling themselves "England" which, though of no recognised international status, often contained the best cricketers of the day.Vernon graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1853.
- He does not appear to have followed any profession, and he died barely two years later at Tixover Hall in Rutland, the home of a Harrow contemporary (and very occasional cricketer), Charles Ormston Eaton, from what was termed "congestion of the brain".
- In some newspapers, the notice of Vernon's death at Eaton's house ran adjacent to a different notice about the marriage of Eaton's sister in Rome, two weeks earlier, both notices contriving to mention both Eaton and Tixover Hall.
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