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William Maples

1820 – 1854

English civil servant and cricketer

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Lived 1820 – 1854 (aged 33). William Maples was a British cricketer.

William Maples (13 June 1820 – 18 May 1854) was an English civil servant in the Indian civil service and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1839. He was born in Islington, London and died at Kolkata, then named Calcutta, in India.

Maples was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1838. He played cricket both at school and at Cambridge, and appeared as a lower-order batsman in one match that has been judged to have been first-class, the 1839 University Match between Cambridge University and Oxford University, scoring one run and taking one catch.

Maples appears not to have taken a degree at Cambridge University; in 1840 he entered the Honourable East India Company's service and in 1843 he was recorded as assistant to the Accountant General in Bengal. The marriage produced at least one son, Frederick George, who was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge and became a Roman Catholic priest.

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Winchester College, Trinity College

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English civil servant and cricketer (1820-1854)

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William Maples was born on 13 June 1820.

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William Maples died on 18 May 1854.

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William Maples was a cricketer.

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William Maples was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: William Maples

· Wikidata: Q18011292

· DBpedia: William Maples (cricketer)

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