John Winter (cricketer)

John Arundell Winter (28 July 1851 – 15 May 1914) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1884.[1] He was born at Ash Priors, Taunton, Somerset and he died at Hampton Wick, Middlesex.

Winter played as a lower-order batsman and an occasional bowler in amateur cricket matches in Somerset in the 1870s, but made only one appearance for the Somerset first-class county side, the first game of the 1884 season against Kent, in which he scored 4 and 0, took one catch and did not bowl.[2]

Earlier he had had a military career, joining the 70th Foot regiment as a lieutenant in 1871.[3] He later served as an officer in the West Somerset Yeomanry, from which he retired in 1892 with the honorary rank of major; the father of another Somerset cricketer, Walter Shuldham, was promoted to replace him when he retired.[4]

References
  1. "John Winter". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  2. "Scorecard: Somerset v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 8 May 1884. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  3. "No. 23812". The London Gazette. 29 December 1871. p. 5873.
  4. "No. 26276". The London Gazette. 8 April 1892. p. 2085.
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