About Gerald Linnell
Lived 1876 – 1959 (aged 83). Gerald Linnell was a cricketer.
Michael Gerald Linnell (13 January 1876 – 2 August 1959) was an English first-class cricketer.
The grandson of the painter John Linnell, he was born at Reigate in January 1876. He emigrated to Rhodesia in 1896 and served in the Matabeleland Relief Force during the Matabeleland Rebellion of 1896. While in Rhodesia he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Rhodesia cricket team against Transvaal in the 1904-05 Currie Cup. Returning to England, he made a further first-class appearance for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Oxford University at Oxford in 1909. He later died in Rhodesia at Salisbury in August 1959.
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(1876-1959)
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Gerald Linnell was born on 13 January 1876 in Reigate.
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Gerald Linnell died on 2 August 1959 in Harare.
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Gerald Linnell was a cricketer.
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