Charles Coppinger

Charles Coppinger (10 April 1851 – 1 August 1877) was an English cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club at the age of 19 in 1870.[1]

Coppinger was born in Bexleyheath in Kent in 1851, the son of Edward and Mildred Coppinger. His father was a publican and came from a cricketing family.[2][3] Coppinger played club cricket for sides such as New Cross and Woolwich and made his only first-class appearance for Kent against Surrey at The Oval in 1870, scoring 13 runs in his two innings.[2][4]

Like his father Coppinger also worked as a publican, first at Eltham and then at New Cross. He married Jane Hutchinson in 1874; the couple had one daughter who died as an infant. Coppinger himself died at New Cross in 1877 of rheumatic fever and acute meningitis aged 26.[2] Two of his brothers, Edward and William, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.[4]

References
  1. Charles Coppinger, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  2. Carlaw D Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914, p.100. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-12.)
  3. Coppinger, Edward Thomas, Obituaries in 1927, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1928. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  4. Charles Coppinger , CricketArchive. retrieved 2017-04-21.

Charles Coppinger at ESPNcricinfo


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