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Full name | Thomas William Tyrwhitt-Drake | ||||||||||||||
Born | 5 November 1926 Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 8 March 2008 Sidcup, Kent, England | (aged 81)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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1946–1948 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
1946–1958 | Hertfordshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 31 May 2019 |
Thomas William Tyrwhitt-Drake (5 November 1926 – 8 March 2008) was an English first-class cricketer.
Tyrwhitt-Drake was born at Paddington in November 1926, to Reverend Charles William Tyrwhitt-Drake. [1] He was educated at Haileybury, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. [2] While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Somerset at Bath in 1946. [3] He made two further first-class appearances for Cambridge University, playing against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1946 and Leicestershire in 1948. [3] He scored 73 runs for Cambridge across six innings, with a top score of 33. [4] Eleven years later he made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University. [3] In addition to playing first-class cricket, Tyrwhitt-Drake also played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1946–58, making 85 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. [5]
He graduated from Trinity with a master's degree in 1949, [2] and married Muriel Ann Makgill in September 1955, with the couple having three children. [1] He died at Sidcup in March 2008.