About Ernest Cassan
Lived 1835 – 1904 (aged 69). Ernest Cassan was a cricketer and barrister.
Ernest John Plantagenet Cassan (17 October 1835 – 24 December 1904) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Stephen Hyde Cassan, he was born in October 1835 at Bruton, Somerset where he attended King's School. From there he went up to Magdalen College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1859, against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford and Cambridge University in The University Match at Lord's. He fared well with the ball in these matches, taking 16 wickets at an average of 11.00, with one five wicket haul of 5 for 64 against Cambridge. His endeavours earned him a cricket blue. Cassan committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on Christmas Eve in 1904.
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English cricketer (1835-1904)
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Ernest Cassan was born on 17 October 1835 in Bruton.
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Ernest Cassan died on 24 December 1904 in Bath.
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Ernest Cassan was a cricketer and barrister.
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