Herbert Burrell
{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Herbert Burrell
| image =
| country =
| fullname = Herbert John Edwin Burrell
| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|11|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|5|22|1866|11|15|df=yes}}
| death_place = Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = Bowler
| club1 = Oxford University
| year1 = 1889
| club2 = Essex
| year2 = 1895
| columns = 1
| column1 = FC
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 15
| bat avg1 = 3.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 10
| deliveries1 = 153
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 39.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 1/37
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/0
| date = 27 July 2013
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9309.html Cricinfo
}}
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.{{Cricinfo|id=9309|name=Herbert Burrell}}
Life
The son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885.{{cite book |last1=Charterhouse School |title=Charterhouse Register, 1872-1910 |date=1911 |publisher=Propietors at the Chiswick Press |page=190|volume=I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmo0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190 |language=en}}{{alox2|title=Burrell, Herbert John Edwin}}{{Cricketarchive|id=4795|name=Herbert Burrell}} He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892.{{cite book |title=The Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook|date=1904 |publisher=S. Sonnenschein & co., ltd.|page=91 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcambridge00hollgoog/page/n124/mode/1up |language=English}}
Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891. He then attended Cuddesdon Theological College. He was chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894, and became vicar of Wigginton, Hertfordshire in 1899. He was rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, 1910–34.{{cite web |url=http://www.balsham.net/church/church-history/ |title=Church Stained Glass |publisher=Balsham Parish Council}}
During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital.{{cite web |url=http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Card?id=32960 |title=Revd. Herbert John Edwin Burrell |publisher=British Red Cross}}
His younger brother John also played first-class cricket.
Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.{{cite book |title=The Antiquaries Journal |date=1930 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=200 |language=en}}
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Category:People from East Cambridgeshire District
Category:Oxford University cricketers
Category:Hertfordshire cricketers
Category:People educated at Charterhouse School
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:20th-century English Anglican priests
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Category:Cricketers from Cambridgeshire
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