About Charles Waller
Lived 1832 – 1886 (aged 53–54). Charles Waller was a priest and cricketer.
Charles Edward Waller (September 1832 – 9 March 1886) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of the Reverend Charles Waller, Sr., he was born at Trimley St. Mary in September 1832. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1851. He made a further first-class appearance for the Surrey Club in 1858, also against the MCC. By 1886, he was the vicar of Humberstone near Leicester. He was a passenger aboard the SS Oregon in March 1886, along with his wife and son, when it collided with an unidentified schooner 32 miles from Jones Inlet, New York. While making it to a lifeboat he became ill, fell overboard and drowned.
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Who was Charles Waller?
(1832-1886)
When was Charles Waller born?
Charles Waller was born in 1832 in Trimley St Mary.
When did Charles Waller die?
Charles Waller died on 9 March 1886 in Atlantic Ocean.
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Charles Waller was a priest and cricketer.
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· DBpedia: Charles Waller (cricketer)
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