About John Patterson
Lived 1860 – 1943 (aged 83). John Patterson was a British cricketer.
Reverend John Irwin Patterson (11 March 1860 – 22 September 1943) was an English clergyman and amateur cricketer who played in six first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club between 1881 and 1882.
Patterson was born at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in Berkshire in 1860, the son of Colonel William Patterson. He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford. After graduating in 1882 he entered the Church of England, acting as a curate in Chatham between 1883 and 1887, Camberley from 1887 to 1888 and in Bournemouth from 1889.
He was the younger brother of William Patterson who captained Kent between 1890 and 1893. Patterson died at Woking in Surrey in 1943 aged 83.
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British cricketer (1860-1943)
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John Patterson was born on 11 March 1860.
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