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Richard Wilson Wardill (3 November 1840 – 17 August 1873) was an Australian cricketer who played in ten first-class cricket matches, eight of which were for Victoria.
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| Full name | Richard Wilson Wardill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 November 1840 Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 August 1873 (aged 32) Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm medium pace (roundarm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Benjamin Wardill (brother) Dick Wardill (son) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1861–73 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1864 | G. Anderson's XI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Family
The son of the stockbroker Joseph Wilson Wardill (1796-1866),[1] and Mary Wardill (1815-1878), née Briddon,[2] Richard Wilson Wardill was born at Everton, Liverpool, England on 3 November 1840. He was the brother of Benjamin Johnston Wardill (1842-1917).
He married Eliza Helena Lovett Cameron (1848-1943),[3] later Mrs. Edward Thomas Tatham,[4] on 18 May 1871. Their son, Richard Cameron Wardill (1872-1929) was born in Melbourne on 5 July 1872.[5]
Cricket
He was the first cricketer to score a century in Australian first-class cricket, when he made 110 and 45 not out in Victoria's victory over New South Wales in 1867-68.[6][7] Wardill was also an influential player and administrator in the early years of Australian rules football. On Boxing Day 1866 he captained the Melbourne Cricket Club against the Western District Aboriginal cricket team, led by Tom Wills.
Cricket writer Gideon Haigh published an article on Wardill in 1992 titled "The Drowned Bradman".
Football
In between 1859 and 1861 he played a number of games of Australian Rules Football with (pre-VFL) Melbourne, Richmond, and St Kilda.[8]
Death
Wardill committed suicide by drowning himself in the Yarra River on 17 August 1873.
See also
- List of Victoria first-class cricketers
Notes
- Deaths: Wardill, (Saturday, 12 May 1866), p.2.
- Deaths: Wardill, The Australian Sketcher, (Saturday, 16 March 1878), p.2.
- Marriages: Wardill—Cameron, The Argus, (Saturday, 20 May 1871), p.4.
- Marriages: Tatham—Wardill, The Argus, (Saturday, 13 April 1907), p.11.
- Births: Wardill, The Argus, (Tuesday, 16 July 1872), p.4.
- "Richard Wardill". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- "Victoria v NSW 1867-68". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- Demonwiki.
- Cranfield, L.R. (1976), "Richard Wilson Wardill (1835–1873)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6.
- Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette: Felonies and Offences not otherwise Described: Richard Wilson Wardill, The New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime, No.36, (Wednesday, 3 September 1873), p.262: "£250 reward for arrest".
- The Late R. W. Wardill: Finding of the Body, The Argus, (Friday, 5 September 1873), p.7.
- The Inquest on R.W. Wardill, The Argus, (Saturday, 6 September 1873), p.7.
References
- Haigh, Gideon, "The drowned Bradman", Independent Monthly, (December 1991-January 1992), pp.23-24.
External links
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