Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet (born 18 December 1771 in England

England

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; died 14 March 1849 in England) was an English amateur 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...

er who made 10 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1792 to 1795.

Shelley became 6th Baronet in September 1783 on the death of his father Sir John Shelley, 5th Baronet

Sir John Shelley, 5th Baronet

Sir John Shelley, 5th Baronet , of Michelgrove in Sussex, was an English Member of Parliament.He was the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet and Margaret Pelham, two of whose brothers served as British Prime Minister...

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Cricket career

He was mainly associated with Sussex and was an early member of Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

(MCC).