John Tudor Gwynn was an Irish cricketer

Cricketer

A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

. He did not represent the Ireland cricket team internationally, and played his cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, representing the "Europeans" in two first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 matches against the "Indians" in 1919 and 1920.

Gwynn came from a cricketing family. His brothers Arthur

Arthur Gwynn

Arthur Percival Gwynn was an Irish cricketer and rugby union player.-Career:Gwynn was born in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland...

, Lucius

Lucius Gwynn

Lucius Henry Gwynn was an Irish rugby union player and cricketer...

 and Robert

Robert Gwynn

Robert Malcom Gwynn was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm slow bowler, he played once for the Ireland cricket team in 1901 and also played four first-class matches for Dublin University in 1895.-Playing career:Gwynn made his first-class debut for Dublin University against...

 all represented Ireland, and his nephew, also called John

John David Gwynn

John David Gwynn ) was an Irish cricketer.Gwynn was born in County Dublin, Ireland. A right-handed batsman, he played one first-class match for Dublin University against Northamptonshire in July 1926, a match that also featured the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.-Family:Gwynn came from a...

, played first-class cricket for Dublin University

Dublin University Cricket Club

Dublin University Cricket Club is a cricket team in Ireland. They currently play in the Leinster Senior League, and in the past had first-class status, and played against several sides that were touring England, including the Australians , South Africans and West Indians .Their first first-class...

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