Charles Vernon Eccles (20 August 1843 – 21 February 1890) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
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| Full name | Charles Vernon Eccles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 August 1843 Davenham, Cheshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 February 1890(1890-02-21) (aged 46) Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown-arm underarm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | William Eccles (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1870–1875 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 31 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The son of William Eccles, he was born in August 1843 at Davenham, Cheshire. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he represented the college cricket team.[1] From Cheltenham he was commissioned into the 1st Royal Dragoons as an ensign by purchase in 1862.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant in October 1866.[3] A keen cricketer, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire on two occasions, playing against Lancashire in 1870 and Kent in 1875;[4] his brother, William, had served as the honorary secretary of Hampshire in the late 1860s.[5] He also made a single first-class appearance for the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent during the Canterbury Cricket Week of 1874.[4] Eccles continued to serve in the Royal Dragoons alongside his cricket commitments and was appointed an instructor of musketry in 1872.[1] He was promoted to captain in November 1873,[6] before being promoted to major in July 1881, at which point he was serving in the Rifle Brigade.[7] He was appointed aide-de-camp in April 1882 to Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia and later Governor-General of New Zealand, a role he held until 1886.[8][1] Eccles died in British India at Bareilly from typhoid fever on 21 February 1890.[9]