Albert Porter (cricketer)

Albert Porter
Personal information
Full name
Albert Lavington Porter
Born20 January 1864
Croydon, Surrey, England
Died14 December 1937(1937-12-14) (aged 73)
Tiverton, Devon, England
BattingUnknown
BowlingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1883Somerset
1895Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 4
Runs scored 19
Batting average 3.80
100s/50s –/–
Top score 7
Balls bowled 36
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 28 January 2010

Albert Lavington Porter (20 January 1864 – 14 December 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

Porter was born at Croydon in January 1864. He was educated at Marlborough College,[1] before matriculating to St John's College, Cambridge.[2] Being resident at Bath in Somerset, Porter represented Somerset in first-class cricket in 1883, making appearances against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's and Hampshire at Southampton.[3] Porter took holy orders in 1888 when he was ordained as a deacon at Winchester Cathedral. Later that year he was appointed a priest at Guildford, before becoming curate at Fareham from 1888 to 1898.[2] While undertaking his ecclesiastical duties at Fareham, Porter made two appearances in first-class cricket. The first came in 1890 against for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present team against the touring Australians at Portsmouth, with his second appearance coming in the 1895 County Championship against Derbyshire at Southampton.[3] In four first-class matches, he scored 19 runs with a highest score of 7.[4] In 1899, he was appointed vicar of Braishfield, an appointment which he held until 1917; he was concurrently rector at Eldon from 1901 to 1907.[2] Porter subsequently lived in Devon, where he died at Tiverton in December 1937.[5] He was married with children,[2] one of whom died in a motor accident in 1925.[6]

References

  1. ^ Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 (5 ed.). H. Hart. 1905. p. 296.
  2. ^ a b c d Venn, John (1944). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 160.
  3. ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Albert Porter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  4. ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Albert Porter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1938". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  6. ^ Westbourne motor smash. Western Gazette. 6 March 1925. p. 6