Richard Tryon

{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}

{{for|the U.S. Marine lieutenant general|Richard T. Tryon}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

| fullname = Richard Tryon

| birth_date = 31 August 1837

| birth_place = Bulwick, Northamptonshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1905|12|12|1837|8|31|df=yes}}

| death_place = Marylebone, London, England

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| batting = Unknown

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| club1 = Marylebone Cricket Club

| year1 = 1871

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 7

| bat avg1 = 7.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 7

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 12 August

| year = 2021

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/21947.html Cricinfo

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Richard Tryon {{postnominal|DL|JP}} (31 August 1837 — 12 December 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of Thomas Tryon and Anne Trollope, he was born in August 1837 at Bulwick Park in the Northamptonshire village of Bulwick.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p59736.htm#i597357 |title=Richard Tryon |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |access-date=2021-08-12}} He was commissioned into the British Army as an ensign in the Rifle Brigade in November 1854.{{London Gazette|issue=21648|date=5 January 1855|page=37}} Shortly after he was promoted to lieutenant in February 1855.{{London Gazette|issue=21665|date=20 February 1855|page=660}} Tryon purchased the rank of captain in July 1858,{{London Gazette|issue=22161|date=13 July 1858|page=3253}} later retiring from active service nearly a decade later in May 1867.{{London Gazette|issue=23256|date=28 May 1867|page=3052}} Tryon made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), captained by W. G. Grace, against Kent at Lord's in 1871.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33425/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Richard Tryon |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2021-08-12 |url-access=subscription}} Batting once in the match, he was dismissed by Bob Lipscomb for 7 runs in the MCC first innings.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1706.html |title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Kent, 1871 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2021-08-12 |url-access=subscription}}

A resident of The Lodge, Oakham in the County of Rutland, Tryon was nominated to be Sheriff of Rutland in November 1880.{{London Gazette|issue=24901|date=13 November 1880|page=5730}} He was unsuccessful, with Francis Pierremont Cecil being made Sheriff; however, Cecil went on active naval service and was replaced by Tryon in April 1881. He was made a deputy lieutenant of Rutland in December 1901.{{London Gazette|issue=27383|date=6 December 1901|page=8648}} He additionally served as a justice of the peace for Rutland. Tryon died at Marylebone in December 1905, following a short illness.Deaths and Marriages. Northampton Mercury. 15 December 1905. p. 8

He married Jane Anna Lucy Johnson, daughter of General William Augustus Johnson, in 1867. Two sons, Henry and Richard, were killed in the First World War.{{efn| Alfred George Drake won the Victoria Cross for saving Henry Tryon in 1915}} A brother was the Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.Funeral of Captain Richard Tryon. Northampton Mercury. 22 December 1905. p. 5