About Herbert Burrell
Lived 1866 – 1949 (aged 82). Herbert Burrell was a British cricketer and anglican priest.
Herbert John Edwin Burrell (15 November 1866 – 22 May 1949) was an English cleric and cricketer. He played in first-class cricket games for Oxford University in 1889 and for Essex in 1895.
Life The son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885. He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892.
Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891.
During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital.
His younger brother John also played first-class cricket.
Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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Who was Herbert Burrell?
cricketer (1866-1949)
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Herbert Burrell was born on 15 November 1866 in Kirtling.
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Herbert Burrell died on 22 May 1949 in Trumpington.
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Herbert Burrell was a cricketer and anglican priest.
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Herbert Burrell was British.
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