Oswald Lancashire, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1857
Date of Death: 23-Jul-1934
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Oswald Lancashire
- Oswald Philip Lancashire (10 December 1857 – 23 July 1934) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), plus other amateur sides, between 1878 and 1888.
- He was also a successful Association football player.
- He was born at Newton Heath, Manchester and died at West Didsbury, also in Manchester. Lancashire was educated at Lancing College and at Jesus College, Cambridge.
- He won a Cambridge Blue for football in 1878, 1879 and 1880, when he captained the team against Oxford University; in all three years, Cambridge won the university match.As a cricketer where he played as a right-handed batsman, often appearing in the lower middle-order, Lancashire played for both Cambridge University and for the county side of Lancashire in 1878 and 1879 without much success.
- In 1880, he passed 50 for the first time in making an innings of 60 for Cambridge against the "Gentlemen of England" side in a high-scoring match.
- He was then awarded his cricket Blue, and in the 1880 University match he made 5 and 29 as a strong Cambridge team beat Oxford by 115 runs.
- Lancashire was still at Cambridge in 1881 but though he played a few more matches for the university cricket team he did not do well enough to win a second Blue. After leaving Cambridge, Lancashire continued to play county cricket fairly regularly for the next half dozen years without ever making much of an impact: in 1886, for example, he played in 19 first-class matches, all but one of them for the Lancashire county team, but he averaged only 10.03 with the bat and his highest score that year was just 49.
- In 1884, he scored 119 for Lancashire in a non-first-class game against Cheshire.
- But his highest first-class score was an innings of 76 against MCC in 1885, when he was left undefeated when Lancashire won the match by eight wickets.
- He did not play first-class cricket after the 1888 season. Unmarried, Lancashire appears to have had no profession or occupation and to have been of "independent means".
- He was a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire from 1887.
- He was chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1913 to 1927 and president in 1923-24.
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