Thomas Hearne was an English cricketer

Cricketer

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Tom Hearne was born in Chalfont St Peter

Chalfont St Peter

Chalfont St Peter is a village and civil parish in Chiltern district in south-east Buckinghamshire, England. It is in a group of villages called The Chalfonts which also includes Chalfont St Giles and Little Chalfont. The villages lie between High Wycombe and Rickmansworth. Chalfont St Peter is...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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. He played first-class cricket as a right-handed batsman, round-arm medium-fast bowler and an occasional wicketkeeper

Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...

 for MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 (1857-1876), Middlesex (pre-county club) (1859-1863) and Middlesex CCC

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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 (1864-1875).

Tom and his brother George

George Hearne Senior

George Hearne was an English cricketer.Hearne was born in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He played for a Middlesex XI and for Middlesex CCC as a batsman. He and his brother Tom headed a cricketing dynasty, which has spawned thirteen first-class cricketers. He died in Bushey Green, aged...

 led a cricketing dynasty, which spawned thirteen first-class cricketers. He died in Ealing

Ealing

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, Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...

, aged 73.

External links

• Tom Hearne at Cricinfo
• Tom Hearne at Cricket Archive