Stirling Voules

Stirling Cookesley Voules (4 January 1843 – 6 May 1923) was an English first-class cricketer, educator and clergyman.

The son of the Reverend Francis Plimley Voules, he was born in January 1843 at Middle Chinnock, Somerset. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he captained the college cricket team. From Marlborough he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford. Playing as an all-rounder, Voules scored 423 runs in his sixteen matches at an average of 19.22 and a high score of 56. With his right-arm roundarm fast bowling, he took 29 wickets at a bowling average of 10.75, with best figures of 7 for 26. These figures, one of two five wicket hauls that he took for Oxford, came against Cambridge in a match winning performance in The University Match of 1863. Voules gained a blue in cricket while playing for Oxford in his freshman year.