Charles Coppinger

Charles Coppinger (10 April 1851 – 1 August 1877) was an English cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club at the age of 19 in 1870.[1]

Coppinger was born in Bexleyheath in Kent in 1851, the son of Edward and Mildred Coppinger. His father was a publican and came from a cricketing family.[2][3] Coppinger played club cricket for teams such as New Cross and Woolwich and made his only first-class appearance for Kent against Surrey at The Oval in 1870, scoring 13 runs in his two innings.[2][4]

Like his father Coppinger also worked as a publican, first at Eltham and then at New Cross. He married Jane Hutchinson in 1874; the couple had one daughter who died as an infant. Coppinger himself died at New Cross in 1877 of rheumatic fever and acute meningitis aged 26.[2] Two of his brothers, Edward and William, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.[4]

References

  1. ^ Charles Coppinger, CricInfo. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Carlaw, pp. 123–124. (Retrieved 21 December 2020.)
  3. ^ Coppinger, Edward Thomas, Obituaries in 1927, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1928. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. ^ a b Charles Coppinger, CricketArchive. retrieved 21 April 2017.

Bibliography

  • Carlaw, Derek (2020). Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part One (1806–1914) (PDF). Cardiff: ACS.
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