About Cyril Onslow
Lived 1815 – 1866 (aged 50). Cyril Onslow was a British cricketer.
Cyril Winnington Onslow (17 December 1815 – 24 July 1866) was an English cricketer who played for Kent in 1841.
Onslow was the son of Arthur Onslow, a clergyman, and his wife Elizabeth, and was born at Newington in Surrey in 1815.
He played club cricket for Penshurst and Tunbridge Wells Cricket Clubs and for West Kent, generally as an opening batsman.
Onslow worked in the police force, initially as a constable at Sheerness Dockyard, rising to the rank of superintendent at Tunbridge Wells.
He married Mary Hewlett at Barnstaple in Devon in 1848; the couple had two daughters before Mary's death in 1855.
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Who was Cyril Onslow?
English cricketer (1815-1866)
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Cyril Onslow was born on 17 December 1815.
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Cyril Onslow died on 24 July 1866.
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Cyril Onslow was a cricketer.
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Cyril Onslow was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Cyril Onslow. https://biography.guide/cyril-onslow/
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