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Full name | Philip Oliphant Kington | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 December 1832 Clifton, Bristol, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 2 July 1892 Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England | (aged 59)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
Relations |
William Kington senior (brother) William Kington junior (nephew) Beresford Baker (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1855/56 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 21 November 2022 |
Philip Oliphant Kington (17 December 1832 – 2 July 1892) was an English businessman and landowner who inherited a Scottish clan chiefdom and also played a single first-class cricket game in Australia. [1] [2] From 1867, when he inherited Ardblair Castle in Scotland from his maternal Oliphant relatives, he took the triple-barrelled name "Kington-Blair-Oliphant". [2] He was born at Clifton, Bristol and died at Datchet, then in Berkshire, now in Buckinghamshire.
Kington was the son of Thomas Kington of Charlton House, Wraxall in north Somerset; he was educated at Harrow School and in 1851 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, although there is no record that he completed a degree at Cambridge University. [2] He played cricket at Harrow, and appeared in the Eton v Harrow match in 1851, but there is no evidence that he played at all at Cambridge. [1]
In January 1855, he was named as one of the founding "resident members" of the new Melbourne, Australia branch of Miles and Kington, the family firm and a Bristol-based company of "General Agents and Commission Merchants", alongside William Augustus Mackworth, who had earlier played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Manchester Cricket Club. [3] Both Mackworth and Kington were elected members of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce in May 1855. [4] Kington was also elected to the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club in October 1855. [5]
The big match of the 1855/56 cricket season in Melbourne was a projected first game against a team from Sydney; this was later expanded to a match between the two colonies of Victoria and New South Wales and Kington was one of five Melbourne Cricket Club players selected for the Victoria team. [6] The match, later regarded as first-class, was very low scoring; Kington was one of only three Victoria players to reach double figures in the game, scoring 12 not out in the first innings, but being out for 0 in the second – he also kept wicket in the second New South Wales innings. [7]
Kington remained with the Melbourne Cricket Club the following year but then appears to have returned to England; he is recorded in a minor match in the 1858 season and then in others across the 1860s, but he did not play first-class cricket again. [1] He inherited Ardblair Castle in 1867 and with it responsibilities within a branch of Clan Oliphant; by the time of his death in 1892, however, he was living at Datchet Lodge, Datchet. He left £21,000 in his will and was buried at Wraxall.
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Philip Oliphant Kington | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 December 1832 Clifton, Bristol, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 2 July 1892 Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England | (aged 59)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
Relations |
William Kington senior (brother) William Kington junior (nephew) Beresford Baker (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1855/56 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Source:
Cricinfo, 21 November 2022 |
Philip Oliphant Kington (17 December 1832 – 2 July 1892) was an English businessman and landowner who inherited a Scottish clan chiefdom and also played a single first-class cricket game in Australia. [1] [2] From 1867, when he inherited Ardblair Castle in Scotland from his maternal Oliphant relatives, he took the triple-barrelled name "Kington-Blair-Oliphant". [2] He was born at Clifton, Bristol and died at Datchet, then in Berkshire, now in Buckinghamshire.
Kington was the son of Thomas Kington of Charlton House, Wraxall in north Somerset; he was educated at Harrow School and in 1851 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, although there is no record that he completed a degree at Cambridge University. [2] He played cricket at Harrow, and appeared in the Eton v Harrow match in 1851, but there is no evidence that he played at all at Cambridge. [1]
In January 1855, he was named as one of the founding "resident members" of the new Melbourne, Australia branch of Miles and Kington, the family firm and a Bristol-based company of "General Agents and Commission Merchants", alongside William Augustus Mackworth, who had earlier played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Manchester Cricket Club. [3] Both Mackworth and Kington were elected members of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce in May 1855. [4] Kington was also elected to the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club in October 1855. [5]
The big match of the 1855/56 cricket season in Melbourne was a projected first game against a team from Sydney; this was later expanded to a match between the two colonies of Victoria and New South Wales and Kington was one of five Melbourne Cricket Club players selected for the Victoria team. [6] The match, later regarded as first-class, was very low scoring; Kington was one of only three Victoria players to reach double figures in the game, scoring 12 not out in the first innings, but being out for 0 in the second – he also kept wicket in the second New South Wales innings. [7]
Kington remained with the Melbourne Cricket Club the following year but then appears to have returned to England; he is recorded in a minor match in the 1858 season and then in others across the 1860s, but he did not play first-class cricket again. [1] He inherited Ardblair Castle in 1867 and with it responsibilities within a branch of Clan Oliphant; by the time of his death in 1892, however, he was living at Datchet Lodge, Datchet. He left £21,000 in his will and was buried at Wraxall.