Algernon Lushington

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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

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

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Algernon Lushington

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Algernon Hay Lushington

| nickname =

| birth_date = 29 September 1847

| birth_place = Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|9|13|1847|9|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Unknown

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1870–1877

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 48

| bat avg1 = 8.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 21

| deliveries1 = 176

| wickets1 = 3

| bowl avg1 = 32.66

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 2/48

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 10 December

| year = 2009

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16375.html Cricinfo

}}

Algernon Hay Lushington (29 September 1847 – 13 September 1930) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Frederick Astell Lushington and Lady Margaret Julia Hay, he was born at Lyndhurst in September 1847.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p50093.htm|title=Algernon Hay Lushington|publisher=www.thepeerage.com|accessdate=2021-12-25}} He was educated at Rugby School,{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register 1842–1874 |first=A. T. |last=Mitchell |date=1902 |volume=2 |publisher=A. J. Lawrence |page=232 |url=https://archive.org/details/rugbyschoolregis02rugbuoft |language=en}} before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=4|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=238|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft|language=en}} A resident of Shanklin on the Isle of Wight where he was a member of Shanklin Cricket Club,Shanklin. Hampshire Advertiser. 15 September 1880. p. 4 Lushington made three appearances in first-class cricket for Hampshire, the first of which came against Lancashire at Southampton in 1870. He would not play his next two first-class matches until 1877, when he appeared against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's and Kent at Southampton.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6738/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Algernon Lushington|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2021-12-25|url-access=subscription}} In three first-class matches, Lushington took 3 wickets and scored 48 runs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6738/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Algernon Lushington|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2021-12-25|url-access=subscription}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6738/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Algernon Lushington|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2021-12-25|url-access=subscription}} Lushington died at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight in September 1930. At the time of his death he was heir-presumptive to his cousin, Sir Andrew Lushington, the 5th Baronet of the Lushington baronets. His great-grandfather was James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll.Scots Earl's Kinsman Dead. Dundee Evening Telegraph. 16 September 1830. p. 5