# List of Manchester Cricket Club players

This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who played first-class cricket matches for Manchester Cricket Club. Manchester played a total of 13 matches between 1844 and 1858 which have been retrospectively classified as first-class. The club is first recorded in matches from 1822.
The club is a fore-runner of Lancashire County Cricket Club which was formed in 1865. A team with the Lancashire name played four first-class matches, all against Yorkshire sides, between 1849 and 1851. Players who played in these matches only are not included in the list below.
Many players represented other teams besides Manchester.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* References
* Notes

## A

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| John Adamthwaite | 1845 | Adamthwaite's only first-class match was for the side. He played other matches between 1832 and 1845. |
| William Armitstead | 1852 | One of his 14 first-class matches was for Manchester, his debut in 1852. Played mostly for Oxford University. |
| Aspinall | 1844 | Is known to have only played in one cricket match, a first-class match for the side against a Yorkshire XI. Other than a surname there are no biographical details. |

## B

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Samuel Baldwinson | 1845–1846 | Baldwinson mainly played for Yorkshire sides from 1844, but appeared three times for Manchester, playing against a Yorkshire side in 1845 and twice against Sheffield sides in 1846. |
| Robert Barlow | 1852 | Barlow's only first-class match was for the side. |
| Richard Bellhouse | 1846–1858 | Eight of his 15 first-class matches were for Manchester. Bellhouse also played in three of the Lancashire matches against Yorkshire between 1849 and 1851. Brother of Thomas Bellhouse. |
| Thomas Bellhouse | 1846–1854 | All five of his first-class matches were for Manchester. In four of them he played alongside his brother Richard. |
| Lea Birch | 1844–1845 | First played for Manchester in 1826. Both of his first-class matches were for the side. Father of Scholes Birch. |
| Scholes Birch | 1845–1852 | Played three matches for the side as well as in three of the Lancashire–Yorkshire matches between 1849 and 1851. Son of Lea Birch. |
| Joseph Birley | 1852 | Birley's only first-class match was for Manchester. |
| Thomas Blain | 1852 | Played twice for Manchester, having played one first-class match for a Lancashire side the previous year. |
| David Bleakley | 1852–1854 | Played twice for Manchester and made three first-class appearances for the Gentlemen of the North. |
| C. Bradshaw | 1844–1848 | Played in a total of seven first-class matches, five of which were for Manchester and two for Lancashire in 1849. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. |
| Henry Brandt | 1854 | Brandt's only first-class match was for the club. |
| Stephen Braybrooke | 1844–1845 | Both of his first-class matches were for Manchester |
| John Buttery | 1852 | Buttery played twice for Manchester, having played in both of the Lancashire matches in 1849. Buttery was employed as a professional at the club from 1847 to 1852. Previously he had played for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire sides. |

## C

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| William Caffyn | 1858 | Played in 200 first-class matches, one of which was for Manchester. Caffyn also played in one of the 1851 Lancashire matches. |
| James Clegg | 1854 | Clegg's only first-class match was for the club. |
| George Cooke | 1848–1858 | Cooke played seven times at first-class level for Manchester as well as in all four of the Lancashire matches between 1849 and 1851. |
| Henry Cooke | 1844–1848 | All five of Cooke's first-class matches were for the club. |

## D

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Samuel Dakin | 1852 | One of his 45 first-class matches was for Manchester, a match against MCC whom he was employed by as a professional. |
| Thomas Davis | 1857 | A professional who played just one of his 18 first-class matches for Manchester. |
| Alfred Diver | 1852 | Another professional who played two of his 84 first-class matches for Manchester. |

## E

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| John Earl | 1844–1845 | Both of his first-class matches were for Manchester. Father of John Henry Earl. |
| John Henry Earl | 1852 | Played in one match for Manchester and one for a Lancashire side in 1849. Son of John Earl. |
| Charles Elmhirst | 1848 | Played his only first-class match for Manchester. |

## G

| Name | Seasons | Comments | Ref |
| W. Galloway | 1852–1854 | Both of Galloway's first-class matches were for Manchester, both against Sheffield. He played for the side until 1858 in club matches and also appeared for Sheffield in a club match against Manchester in 1853. Other than a surname and initial there are no biographical details known. | |
| Arthur Girling | 1845–1848 | Played in eight first-class matches, six for Manchester and two for sides named The North. | |

## H

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| R. Hampson | 1845 | Made his only first-class appearance for Manchester, although he played club matches for the side between 1827 and 1855. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. |
| Thomas Heighes | 1857 | Played once for Manchester having made both of his other first-class appearances in the two 1851 Lancashire matches. |
| Tom Hunt | 1846–1858 | Played eight times for Manchester and in both of the Lancashire matches in 1849. Hunt also played nine times for Yorkshire sides between 1845 and 1851 and for Sheffield in 1858. He made a total of 39 appearances in first-class matches. |

## K

| Name | Seasons | Comments | Ref |
| William Kington | 1858 | Played a single first-class match for Manchester in 1858 before making three further first-class appearances in 1875 and 1876, two of which were for Gloucestershire and one for the Gentlemen of the MCC. He played a further club match for Manchester in 1859. | |

## L

| Name | Seasons | Comments | Ref |
| John Lillywhite | 1848–1857 | Three of Lillywhite's 185 first-class matches were for Manchester. He played 100 times for Sussex and for a variety of other sides in first-class cricket. | |

## M

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| William Mackworth | 1848 | One of Mackworth's two first-class appearances was for Manchester. The other came for Cambridge University in 1845. |
| Joseph Makinson | 1857 | Barrister who played in 27 first-class matches, including one for Manchester. Makinson played for Lancashire after the formation of the county club. |
| James Marchanton | 1854 | Made a single first-class appearance. |
| Edward Martin | 1848 | Played in 41 first-class matches, mainly for Kent. Played twice for Manchester 1848 as well as a number of times in club matches during the same year, one in which he did not appear for any other side. |
| J. Martin | 1846 | Is recorded in only two matches, both first-class matches for Manchester in 1846. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. |
| T. McConnell | 1844 | Played a single first-class match. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. |
| Pierrepont Mundy | 1845 | Played in nine first-class matches for seven different teams. One of these was for Manchester. |

## P

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Elgar Pagden | 1846–1848 | All four of Pagden's first-class matches were for Manchester. |
| John Payne | 1858 | One of Payne's four first-class matches was for the club, the others coming for sides representing the North. |
| Frederico Perera | 1857–1858 | Played twice for the club and twice for the Gentlemen of the North. |
| Henry Pickford | 1844–1857 | Played in 11 first-class matches, including seven for Manchester and both of Lancashire's 1849 fixtures. |
| J. E. Price | 1852 | A single known match. Other than a surname and initials no biographical details are known. |

## R

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Charles Rogers | 1858 | Played one of his two first-class matches for the side. |
| Alexander Rowley | 1854–1858 | Played in 31 first-class matches, three of which were Manchester, making his first-class debut for the side at the age of 16. Played for Lancashire after the formation of the county club. He was influential in the formation of Lancashire as a county club in 1864 and was its chairman from 1869 to 1877 and President between 1874 and 1880. Brother of James Rowley. |
| James Rowley | 1852–1854 | Two of his five first-class matches were for Manchester and he also played in both of Lancashire's 1851 fixtures. Brother of Alexander Rowley. |

## S

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Shepherd | 1844–1845 | Is known to have played in only two matches, both first-class ones for the club. |
| John Sherman | 1844–1852 | Born in 1788, most of Sherman's 27 first-class matches were played between 1809 and 1823 for teams in the south of the country. He played in six matches for Manchester in his later years. |
| Thomas Smelt | 1848–1852 | Both of Smelt's first-class matches were for the club. |

## T

| Name | Seasons | Comments | Ref |
| S Taylor | 1852 | Played in 11 first-class matches, mainly for MCC. He made one appearance for Manchester in 1852 against his normal side. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. | |
| Frederick Thackeray | 1845 | One of Thackeray's 31 first-class matches was for Manchester. He played most frequently for MCC and Cambridge University. | |

## W

| Name | Seasons | Comments |
| Edward Whitlow | 1852–1854 | Two of Whitlow's three first-class appearances were for Manchester. |
| John Whittington | 1858 | Played once for Manchester and in three first-class matches for the Gentlemen of the North. |
| John Wisden | 1852–1857 | Wisden, who established Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, played twice for the side as a given man. |
| J. Womack | 1845–1852 | Played four times for Manchester, having appeared on a Yorkshire XI against the club in 1844 in his other first-class match. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. |
| Edward Wright | 1844–1848 | Six of Wright's seven first-class matches were for Manchester. He also appeared in one of Lancashire's 1849 fixtures. Other than his name there are no biographical details known. |
| Henry Wright | 1857–1858 | Played primarily for Yorkshire and Sheffield sides as well as for teams such as the North and various All England XIs. Made two appearances for Manchester sides, one against Surrey and the other against Sussex. |