Henry Hervey Aston

Captain (later Colonel) Henry Hervey Aston (1759 – 1798) was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club. He was at different times a member of both the Hambledon Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). A useful batsman, Aston made 13 known first-class appearances from 1786 to 1793 when his military duties took precedence.

He married Harriet Ingram-Shepheard, 4th daughter of Charles Ingram 9th Viscount Irwin and his wife Frances, nee Shepheard, of Temple Newsam near Leeds, on 16 Sept 1789, and they had two sons, Henry Charles Hervey Aston, and Arthur Ingram Aston.

In December 1793, Aston obtained a Lieutenant-colonelcy in the 12th Foot and afterwards went to Madras where in 1798 he fought a duel with Major Picton. Both fired into the air. Next day, in another duel, he was wounded by a new adversary, Major Allen, and after languishing about a week, he died on 23 December 1798.

External links

Henry Hervey Aston at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
From Lads to Lord's – profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 October 2012)

References

G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
H T Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906

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