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Herbert Burrell
Herbert John Edwin Burrell (15 November 1866 – 22 May 1949) was an English cleric and cricketer. He played in first-class cricket games for Oxford University in 1889 and for Essex in 1895.[1] LifeThe son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885.[2][3][4] He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892.[5] Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891.[2] He then attended Cuddesdon Theological College.[5] He was chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894, and became vicar of Wigginton, Hertfordshire in 1899.[2] He was rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, 1910–34.[6] During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital.[7] His younger brother John also played first-class cricket. Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[8] References
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