Henry Mayne

Henry Blair Mayne (23 August 1813 – 17 January 1892) was an English lawyer and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1833 and 1849.^[1]

Henry Mayne

Mayne photographed in 1861
Personal information
Full name	Henry Blair Mayne
Born	(1813-08-23)23 August 1813 Limpsfield, Surrey
Died	17 January 1892(1892-01-17) (aged 78) Brighton, Sussex
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1834–1838	Oxford University
FC debut	12 August 1833 Gentlemen of Kent v MCC
Last FC	23 August 1849 Gentlemen of Kent v Gentlemen of England
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 18 Runs scored 130 Batting average 5.65 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 17 Balls bowled ?[a] Wickets 5 Bowling average ? 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 3/? Catches/stumpings 7/–
Source: CricInfo, 28 August 2020

Life

Mayne was born at Limpsfield in Surrey in 1813, the son of the Rev. Robert Mayne and his wife Charlotte. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford where he matriculated in 1831, graduating B.A. in 1835, M.A. in 1838. At school Mayne was a rower, continuing to row at stroke at Christ Church where he also played cricket for the University side. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1845. From 1850 he served as a Clerk in the Private Bills Office of the House of Commons, becoming the Head of the office in 1870.^[2][3][1][4]

Mayne was also notable as one of the group which helped to write the rules of Short Whist. He died at Brighton in Sussex in January 1892 aged 78.^[2][5]

Cricketer

Mayne played in 18 first-class cricket matches between 1833 and 1849, for a variety of teams. He made his first-class debut in 1833 for the Gentlemen of Kent before playing four times for Oxford University between 1834 and 1838. He played for a Kent team in 1835, before the foundation of the County Club, and went on to play once for Kent County Cricket Club in 1844. He made seven appearances for MCC, four for the Gentlemen of Kent and one for the Gentlemen of England.^[6] He played regularly in club cricket for I Zingari and MCC as well as for other sides, including Bramshill in Hampshire.^[1][5]

Notes

1. It is not known how many balls Mayne bowled in first-class cricket or how many runs he conceded. Scorecards from the time he played did not always fully record a bowler's analysis.

References

1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 381–382. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
2. Henry Mayne, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Mayne, Henry Blair" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
4. Pavilion Gossip, Cricket: a weekly record of the game, 1892, p.8. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
5. Henry Blair Mayne, Obituaries in 1892, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1893. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
6. Henry Mayne, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-16.

External links

• Henry Mayne at ESPNcricinfo
• Portraits of Henry Blair Mayne at the National Portrait Gallery, London