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Sir Horatio Mann's Last Patron Match — Bishopsbourne, July 1802
Kent vs England
1802-07-07
Sir Horatio Mann, the Kent baronet who had been one of the great patrons of late-eighteenth-century cricket, raised his last full England-strength match at Bishopsbourne in July 1802. His finances had collapsed after years of cricket spending; the 1802 fixture was effectively a farewell. Mann died twelve years later largely forgotten, but the Bishopsbourne match marks the close of an era of lordly cricket patronage that had begun in the 1760s.
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