Thomas Spinks

{{Short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Thomas Spinks

| birth_date = 26 September 1819

| birth_place = Westminster, London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1899|1|14|1819|9|26}}

| death_place = Upper Sydenham, Kent, England

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| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Unknown

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| club1 = Oxford University

| year1 = 1840

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 0

| bat avg1 = 0.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 0

| deliveries1 = ?

| wickets1 = 3

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| fivefor1 = –

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| best bowling1 = 3/?

| catches/stumpings1 = 10/–

| date = 9 April

| year = 2020

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/21348.html Cricinfo

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Thomas Spinks {{postnominals|QC}} (26 September 1819 – 14 January 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of William Spinks, he was born at Westminster in September 1819. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School,{{cite book |title=A Register of the Scholars Admitted into Merchant Taylors' School From A.D. 1562 to 1874 |date=1891 |first=Charles J. |last=Robinson |publisher=Farncombe & Co. |pages=232 |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/aregisterschola00schogoog/page/n237/ |language=en}} before going up to St John's College, Oxford.{{alox2|title=Spinks, Thomas}} While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Cambridge University in The University Match of 1840.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37726/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Thomas Spinks |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-04-11 |url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring win both Oxford innings' by Edward Sayres and William de St Croix respectively. With the ball, he took the wickets of William Pickering, de St Croix and Sayres in the Cambridge first-innings.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/626.html |title=Oxford University v Cambridge University, 1840 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-04-11 |url-access=subscription}}

After graduating from Oxford, he became an advocate of the Doctors' Commons in 1849, until a motion for its disestablishment in January 1858. Becoming a member of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in November 1858.{{cite book |title=Men-at-the-bar |first=Joseph |last=Foster |date=1885 |publisher=Reeves and Turner |pages=[https://archive.org/details/menatthebarabio00fostgoog/page/n485 441] |url=https://archive.org/details/menatthebarabio00fostgoog |language=en}} He was appointed Queen's Counsel in December 1866 and became a bencher the following year.{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=7703|date=18 December 1866|page=1525}} By 1880, he was the registrar of York district probate registry. Spinks died at his home at Upper Sydenham in January 1899.{{cite book |title=The Law Times |date=1899 |publisher=Office of The Law Times |pages=232 |volume=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzBHAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}