Everard Joseph Reginald Henry Radcliffe (27 January 1884 – 23 November 1969) was an English

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 amateur

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 first-class cricket

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He was born at Hensleigh House, Tiverton, Devon

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, England

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, and played in sixty four first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1909 and 1911. He succeeded Lord Hawke as captain

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 in 1910. His first-class record saw Radcliffe score 826 runs at 10.86, and take two wickets at an average of 67.00 with twenty one catches. He also played for the Yorkshire Gentlemen, and worked was a stock broker

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 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The Radcliffe family lived in Rudding Park, near Knaresborough

Knaresborough

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, Yorkshire

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, from 1824 until the estate was sold in 1972.

He died in November 1969 at St Trinian's Hall, Richmond

Richmond, North Yorkshire

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, Yorkshire, aged 85.

External links

• Everard Radcliffe at Cricinfo
• Everard Radcliffe at Cricket Archive