Henry Maister

English first-class cricketer (1813-1898)
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IntroEnglish first-class cricketer (1813-1898)
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain England
wasAthlete Cricketer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Religion:Anglicanism
Birth1813, Winestead, United Kingdom
Death18 June 1898 (aged 85 years)
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Biography

Henry Maister (27 July 1813 – 18 June 1898) was an English first-class cricketer.

Maister was born at Winestead, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire long associated with the Maister family. He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. He made two appearances in first-class cricket in 1832, the first coming for the Marylebone Cricket Club against the Gentlemen of Kent in August, with his second match coming for the Gentlemen of England the following month against the Gentlemen of Kent, with both matches played at Chislehurst. After graduating from Oxford he became a reverend and married Grace Sutton in June 1850 at Elton, County Durham. He died in June 1898 at Skefflington, Yorkshire.

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