Theodore Thring

{{short description|English cricketer and barrister}}

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

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| country = England

| fullname = Theodore Thring

| birth_date = 4 August 1816

| birth_place = Castle Cary, Somerset, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1891|9|28|1816|8|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Castle Cary, Somerset, England

| nickname =

| family = Charles Thring (nephew)

| batting = Unknown

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| club1 = Marylebone Cricket Club

| year1 = 1840

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 7

| bat avg1 = 7.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 7

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 6 September

| year = 2021

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/21561.html Cricinfo

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Theodore Thring {{postnominal|JP|DL}} (4 August 1816 — 28 September 1891) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of The Reverend John Gale Dalton Thring and Sarah née Jenkyn, he was born in Somerset at Castle Cary in August 1816. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=6|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=184|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri06univuoft|language=en}}

Thring did not play first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club while studying at Trinity, but he did appear for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Oxford in 1840.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37806/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Theodore Thring |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2021-09-06 |url-access=subscription}} Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in the MCC first innings by Nicholas Darnell.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/619.html |title=Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1840 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2021-09-06 |url-access=subscription}}

A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar to practice as a barrister in January 1843.{{cite book |title=Men-at-the-bar |first=Joseph |last=Foster |date=1885 |publisher=Reeves and Turner |page=466 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Men-at-the-Bar.djvu/502 |language=en}} He was appointed the commissioner of bankruptcy for Liverpool in 1869, having been the joint-registrar since 1862. He was later deputy chairman of the quarter sessions for Somerset. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Somerset in May 1875,{{London Gazette|issue=24225|date=6 July 1875|page=3463}} in addition to serving as a justice of the peace for the county. He was the author of treatise on The Criminal Law of the Navy and the Land Drainage Act.

Thring died at Castle Cary on 28 September 1891, two days after the death of his centenarian mother.Death of Mr. Theodore Thring. West Somerset Free Press. 3 October 1891. p. 8 His brothers were the lawyer and civil servant Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, the clergyman and hymn writer Godfrey Thring and the clergyman and teacher John Charles Thring. His nephew, Charles Thring, also played first-class cricket.