About Guy Prendergast
Lived 1806 – 1887 (aged 81). Guy Prendergast was a British cricketer and literary scholar.
Guy Lushington Prendergast (3 August 1806 – 5 November 1887) was an English cricketer with amateur status who was associated with Cambridge University. He was recorded in one match in 1826, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0 and holding one catch.
He was a son of Guy Lenox Prendergast of the Bombay Civil Service (later MP for Lymington 1826–27). He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, but is not recorded to have taken a degree.
In 1857, he published A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton and then in 1875 A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer.
He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
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Who was Guy Prendergast?
English cricketer (1806-1887)
When was Guy Prendergast born?
Guy Prendergast was born on 3 August 1806 in Mumbai.
When did Guy Prendergast die?
Guy Prendergast died on 5 November 1887 in Kensington.
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Guy Prendergast was a cricketer and literary scholar.
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Guy Prendergast was British.
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· DBpedia: Guy Prendergast (cricketer)
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