Francis Mugliston

Francis Mugliston
Personal information
Full name Francis Hugh Mugliston
Born (1886-06-07)7 June 1886
Singapore, Straits Settlements
Died 3 October 1932(1932-10-03) (aged 46)
Mayfair, Westminster, London, England
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm slow-medium
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1909–1911 HDG Leveson-Gower's XI
1910 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
1906–1908 Lancashire
1905–1908 Cambridge University
First-class debut 18 May 1905 Cambridge University v Warwickshire
Last First-class 29 June 1911 HDG Leveson-Gower's XI v Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 33
Runs scored 874
Batting average 16.18
100s/50s 1/2
Top score 109
Balls bowled balls
Wickets 4
Bowling average 75.25
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/32
Catches/stumpings 16/0
Source: CricketArchive, 4 December 1932

Francis Hugh Mugliston OBE (7 June 1886 – 3 October 1932) was an English cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman and right-arm slow-medium bowler, he played first-class cricket for various teams between 1905 and 1911, mainly for Cambridge University.[2] He was an all-round sportsman at Cambridge University where he won Blues for cricket, Association football and golf.[3]

Career

Born 7 June 1886 in Singapore, Mugliston was educated at Rossall School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[3] He was captain of the Cambridge football team and also played soccer for Corinthian F.C., the amateur club, including a tour of South Africa with the team in 1907.[3]

Mugliston's first recorded cricket match was for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States in February 1905.[4] The same year, he made his first-class debut, playing for Cambridge University against Warwickshire and Gloucestershire,[5] also playing three matches for the Lancashire Second XI that year.[4]

He played twice more for Cambridge University in 1906, also playing two County Championship matches for Lancashire against Somerset and Sussex that year. He played several first-class matches for the University side in 1907 and 1908, gaining his blue in both years.[5] He also represented the university at golf and football.[6]

He played his final five matches for Lancashire in 1908, following which he played first-class cricket sporadically between 1909 and 1911, including one match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[5]

After cricket

After leaving Cambridge, he studied law and was called as a barrister to the Inner Temple in 1911; instead of practising law, however, he joined the Sudan civil service, though he was soon invalided home after catching dysentery.[3] He joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in September 1914 and was severely wounded at Ypres the following year.[3] Discharged from the army, he joined the Aliens branch of the Home Office and was deputy chief inspector of the Aliens department at the time of his death.[3] He died 3 October 1932 in Mayfair, London.

References

  1. ↑ Cricinfo profile
  2. ↑ CricketArchive profile
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Obituary: Mr F. H. Mugliston". The Times (46255). London. 4 October 1932. p. 19.
  4. 1 2 Other matches played by Francis Mugliston at CricketArchive
  5. 1 2 3 First-class matches played by Francis Mugliston at CricketArchive
  6. ↑ Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1933, Obituaries in 1932
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