Adolphus Sparrow

{{short description|English cricketer (1869–1936)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Adolphus Sparrow

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Adolphus James Sparrow

| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|5|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Alverstoke, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|9|6|1869|5|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Minster, Kent, England

| batting = Unknown

| bowling =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1902

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 1

| bat avg1 = 1.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 1

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 26 August

| year = 2023

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/20294.html Cricinfo

}}

Adolphus James Sparrow (10 May 1869 – 6 September 1936) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy sailor.

Sparrow was born in May 1869 at Alverstoke, Hampshire. Sparrow was a bandsman in the Royal Navy, serving on board {{HMS|Immortalité|1887|6}} at Sheerness Dockyard.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000290/18930509/003/0002|title=Fatal officialism|newspaper=Portsmouth Evening News|page=2|date=9 May 1893|access-date=1 March 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} He later played first-class cricket for Hampshire, making a single appearance against Leicestershire at Southampton in the 1902 County Championship.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6859/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Adolphus Sparrow|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=1 March 2024|url-access=subscription}} Batting once in the match, he made a single run in Hampshire's only innings from the middle order, before being dismissed by John King.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5951.html|title=Hampshire v Leicestershire, County Championship 1902|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=1 March 2024|url-access=subscription}} Sparrow remained in Sheerness after leaving the navy, and would be resident there for thirty years. He died in hospital at Minster in September 1936.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002651/19360910/066/0005|title=Death of naval pensioner|newspaper=Sheerness Times Guardian|page=5|date=10 September 1936|access-date=1 March 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}