Edward Slinger

Edward Slinger (2 February 1938 – 31 July 2023) was an English first-class cricketer, solicitor and judge.

Biography Slinger was born at Accrington on 2 February 1938. He was educated in the town at Accrington Grammar School, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating from Balliol, he was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1961. despite his large number of appearances for the second eleven, he never featured for the first eleven. Slinger did however feature in one first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Oxford in 1967. Batting once in a match heavily affected by poor weather, he scored 12 not out in the MCC's first and only innings. He was appointed a circuit judge in 1995, before retiring in 2010. He additionally sat as a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales from 2009, and was a governor of Westholme School.