Controversies in 1837

5 incidents documented

Fuller Pilch's First Century for Town Malling — Kent, 1837

Town Malling; Kent

1837-08-10

Fuller Pilch's first century after his 1836 transfer from Norfolk to Kent came in the summer of 1837 — a landmark for both the player and the town that had hired him. Town Malling had paid Pilch £100 a year to play for the local club and operate its ground; the century was an immediate and public vindication of the investment, and announced Pilch as the leading batter of the late 1830s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#fuller-pilch

⭐Mild

Queen Victoria's Accession and the MCC's Loyal Address — June 1837

n/a

1837-06-26

On 20 June 1837 William IV died and Princess Victoria, eighteen, became Queen. Within a week the MCC committee — chaired by William Ward — voted a formal loyal address to the new monarch and dispatched it to St James's Palace. The address, courteously acknowledged from the Queen's secretary, was one of dozens received from sporting and civic bodies but is the formal opening of MCC's relationship with the Victorian monarchy.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#queen-victoria

⭐Mild

Mynn vs Dearman — Brighton Rematch, August 1837

Alfred Mynn (Kent) vs James Dearman (Yorkshire)

1837-08-21

In August 1837 the Sheffield batsman James Dearman, smarting from his innings-and-107 thrashing at Town Malling the previous September, demanded a return single-wicket match against Alfred Mynn. The rematch was played at Brighton on 21-22 August 1837 and went the same way as the first: Mynn won by an innings and 67 runs.

#alfred-mynn#james-dearman#single-wicket

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Edward 'Ned' Wenman — Kent's Wicketkeeper-Captain

Kent, England

1837-07-01

Edward 'Ned' Wenman of Benenden in Kent was the wicketkeeper around whom the great Kent side of the late 1830s and 1840s was built. With Pilch and Mynn ahead of him in the order he was a useful lower-order batsman; behind the stumps he was reckoned the best wicketkeeper in England, taking Mynn's fast roundarm bowling without complaint and effecting more stumpings than any contemporary.

#ned-wenman#edward-wenman#kent

⭐Mild

Sussex — The Roundarm County of the 1830s

Sussex

1837-06-15

Through the 1830s Sussex was, with Kent, one of the two leading counties in England. The county had been the cradle of roundarm bowling — Lillywhite and Jem Broadbridge had been the bowlers who forced the law change of 1828 — and through the 1830s the Sussex eleven, built around Lillywhite's bowling and Tom Box behind the stumps, was a regular winner against all comers.

#sussex#william-lillywhite#jem-broadbridge