Nicholas "Felix" Wanostrocht (born 5 October 1804 at Camberwell, London; died 3 September 1876 at Wimborne Minster, Dorset) was a noted English amateur ("Gentleman") cricketer. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople Year 1804 ( MDCCCIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Camberwell is a district of London, England and forms part of the London Borough of Southwark. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year This article is about the town Wimborne Minster For the church of Wimborne Minster see Wimborne Minster. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries
He is one of the few players who - at his request - was routinely known by his nickname, which was in effect a pseudonym. When his father died in 1824 he had inherited the running of his school, aged only nineteen, and he was afraid that the parents of pupils might think that cricket was too frivolous a pastime for a schoolmaster.
He was a specialist left-handed batsman, though he did occasionally bowl underarm slow left-arm orthodox. Felix was a mainstay of the great Kent team of the mid-19th century alongside such players as Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman. Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English domestic Cricket structure representing Alfred Mynn ( 19 January 1807 - 1 November 1861) was an English Cricketer during the game's "Roundarm Era". Fuller Pilch ( March 17, 1804, Horningtoft, Norfolk - May 1, 1870, Canterbury, Kent) was an English William Richard Hillyer (born March 5, 1813 at Leybourne and died January 8, 1861 at Maidstone) was a prominent Cricketer Edward Gower Wenman (born 18 August, 1803 and died 28 December, 1879) was an English Cricketer in the mid-19th century In the words of the famous elegy, best loved of Bernard Darwin,
- And with five such mighty cricketers 'twas very natural to win
- As Felix, Wenman, Hillyer, Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn. Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP ( September 7 1876 &mdash 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist
In all, he played for Kent from 1830 until 1852. He also appeared for MCC and was a popular member of the All-England Eleven. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC is a private members' club founded in 1787 In Cricket, the term All-England Eleven has been used for various non-international England teams since the 1739 English cricket season and it indicates
In his overall first-class career, Felix played in 149 matches and had 264 innings including 13 not out. He scored 4,556 runs at 18. 15 with a highest score of 113. He made 2 centuries, 15 fifties and took 112 catches. It should be remembered when studying his batting average that he played at a time when prevailing conditions greatly favoured bowlers. Felix was rated very highly by his contemporaries.
He was the author of a famous instruction book: Felix on the Bat, Baily Bros, 1845. He also invented the Catapulta (a bowling machine) as well as india-rubber batting gloves. A man of many talents, he was also a classical scholar, musician, linguist, inventor, writer and artist.
Felix is buried in Wimborne cemetery. This article is about the town Wimborne Minster For the church of Wimborne Minster see Wimborne Minster. Ten yards from his grave is the grave of another cricketer, Montague John Druitt, better known as a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper crimes. Many suspects have been proposed as the unidentified Serial killer or killers given the alias Jack the Ripper, responsible for a series of murders that took place Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified Serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London
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References
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p10. Arthur Haygarth ( 4 August 1825 in Hastings, Sussex – 1 May 1903 in Pimlico, London) was a noted
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