Charles Eccles

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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

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

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

| fullname = Charles Vernon Eccles

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| birth_date = 20 August 1843

| birth_place = Davenham, Cheshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1890|2|21|1843|8|20|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Unknown-arm underarm slow

| family = William Eccles (brother)

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = {{nowrap|1870–1875}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 42

| bat avg1 = 8.40

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 23

| deliveries1 = 64

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 31 January

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12480.html Cricinfo

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Charles Vernon Eccles (20 August 1843 – 21 February 1890) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of William Eccles, he was born in August 1843 at Davenham, Cheshire. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he represented the college cricket team.{{cite book |title=Cheltenham College Register, 1841-1910 |first=Andrew Alexander |last=Hunter |page=170 |year=1911 |publisher=George Bell & Sons |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/b28982836 |language=en}} From Cheltenham he was commissioned into the 1st Royal Dragoons as an ensign by purchase in 1862.{{London Gazette|issue=22645|date=18 July 1862|page=3583}} He was promoted to lieutenant in October 1866.{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=7686|date=19 October 1866|page=1221}} A keen cricketer, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire on two occasions, playing against Lancashire in 1870 and Kent in 1875;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6577/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Eccles |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2021-05-29 |url-access=subscription}} his brother, William, had served as the honorary secretary of Hampshire in the late 1860s.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/227115.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1900 |date=24 November 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=2021-05-29}} He also made a single first-class appearance for the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent during the Canterbury Cricket Week of 1874. Eccles continued to serve in the Royal Dragoons alongside his cricket commitments and was appointed an instructor of musketry in 1872. He was promoted to captain in November 1873,{{London Gazette|issue=24035|date=14 November 1873|page=4963}} before being promoted to major in July 1881, at which point he was serving in the Rifle Brigade.{{London Gazette|issue=25014|date=13 September 1881|page=4687}} He was appointed aide-de-camp in April 1882 to Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia and later Governor-General of New Zealand, a role he held until 1886.{{London Gazette|issue=25099|date=25 April 1882|page=1846}} Eccles died in British India at Bareilly from typhoid fever on 21 February 1890.Messrs. Berry. Mail Day Circular. Madras Weekly Mail. 5 March 1890. p. 26