Trevor Branston
{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Trevor Branston
| image =
| caption =
| country = England
| fullname = George Trevor Branston
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|9|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|8|12|1884|9|3|df=yes}}
| death_place = Regent's Park, London, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium-pace
| family =
| club1 = Nottinghamshire
| year1 = 1903 to 1913
| club2 = Oxford University
| year2 = 1904 to 1906
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 89
| runs1 = 3301
| bat avg1 = 25.78
| 100s/50s1 = 3/15
| top score1 = 194 not out
| deliveries1 =
| wickets1 = 153
| bowl avg1 = 28.12
| fivefor1 = 6
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/66
| catches/stumpings1 = 96/0
| date = 2 January 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9954.html Cricinfo
}}
George Trevor Branston (3 September 1884 – 12 August 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire and Oxford University from 1903 to 1913.
Early life and education
Branston was born at Newark-on-Trent, the second son of George Henry Branston, of The Friary, Newark, Nottinghamshire, a wealthy maltster, and his wife Gwynedd, daughter of Adam Eyton, JP, of Plas Llanerch-y-Mor, Flintshire. On George Henry Branston's purchase of Branston, Lincolnshire, in 1897, the family attained the status of landed gentry; by 1952, Trevor Branston was the head of this family.Burke's Landed Gentry, seventeenth edition, ed. L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952, p. 249.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/biographies1901/obituary.htm|work=Nottinghamshire History|title=Obituary|access-date=16 September 2021}}
Branston attended Charterhouse School in Surrey before going up to Hertford College, Oxford.Wisden 1970, p. 1017. An all rounder, he won cricket Blues in 1904, 1905 and 1906, and played for Nottinghamshire during the summer holidays as an amateur.
Cricket career
Branston was one of the leading players on the all-amateur MCC tour of New Zealand in 1906–07: he scored 119, one of only two centuries by the team, against Canterbury, and in all matches took 36 first-class wickets at an average of 18.69.{{cite web |title=First-class Bowling for Marylebone Cricket Club |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Marylebone_Cricket_Club_in_New_Zealand_1906-07/f_Marylebone_Cricket_Club_Bowling.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2 January 2019}} He played in both of the representative matches against New Zealand, top-scoring in the first innings of the second match with 28.Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 48–50. He also toured with MCC to North America in 1907 and Egypt in 1909.{{cite web |title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Trevor Branston|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28098/Miscellaneous_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2 January 2019}}
Playing for the Gentlemen of England against Cambridge University in 1908, he took three wickets in each innings and scored 58 and 194 not out, his highest first-class score, to take Gentlemen of England to 401 for 6 and a four-wicket victory.{{cite web |title=Gentlemen of England v Cambridge University 1908 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7607.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 January 2019}} His best first-class bowling figures were 6 for 66, which helped Oxford to a 50-run victory over Kent in 1905.{{cite web |title=Oxford University v Kent 1905 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6709.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 January 2019}}
Personal life
In 1912, Branston married Ethel May, daughter of J. E. Anderton, MBE, MD, of New Mills, Derbyshire. They had one child, a daughter, Audrey (born 1913), who married Major Ernest Nugent Oldrey, OBE, of the Royal Artillery, and had a son, Timothy Nugent Oldrey. The Branston family of Branston was extinct at Trevor Branston's death as both he and his only brother, Henry Eyton Branston (1878–1934), of The Old Hall, Balderton, Newark-on-Trent, had died without male issue.Burke's Family Index, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 18
The family lived both at Branston and at 31, St James Close, Regent's Park, NW8.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=9954}}
- {{cricketarchive|id=28098}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Newark-on-Trent
Category:Cricketers from Nottinghamshire
Category:Nottinghamshire cricketers
Category:Oxford University cricketers
Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Category:Gentlemen of England cricketers
Category:People educated at Charterhouse School