# List of Gentlemen cricketers (1806–1840)

The Gentlemen v Players first-class cricket fixture was first played in 1806 and, despite many difficulties in the early years, it had by 1840 become an established annual event in the English cricket calendar. Apart from the years of the two World Wars, it remained so until 1962. The purpose of the fixture was to match the best of the amateur cricketers (the Gentlemen) against the best of the paid professionals (the Players). The table below summarises the full career record in the fixture of everyone who made their debuts for the Gentlemen team in the matches played to 1840.

## Key

* club denotes the player's usual team when he represented the Gentlemen (most at the time were MCC members).
* debut denotes the year of the player's debut appearance for the Gentlemen.
* final denotes the year of the player's final appearance for the Gentlemen.
* M denotes the number of matches in which the player represented the Gentlemen.
* runs denotes the total number of runs scored by the player in all his matches for the Gentlemen.
* HS denotes the highest score made by the player in one innings when batting for the Gentlemen (* signifies not out).
* wkts denotes the total number of wickets taken by the player in all his matches for the Gentlemen.
* BB denotes the best bowling performance by the player in one innings for the Gentlemen (e.g., 3–30 means he took 3 wickets in the innings and conceded 30 runs; to 1840, runs conceded by bowlers are usually unknown, hence "?").
* players are initially listed according to the date of their debut for the Gentlemen.
* players in bold were known professionals who represented the Gentlemen as given men in order to handicap the Players.

## List

List of Gentlemen cricketers to 1840 :
| name | nation | club | debut | final | M | runs | HS | wkts | BB |
| Thomas Assheton Smith II | England | MCC | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 60 | 48 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Lord Frederick Beauclerk | England | MCC | 1806 | 1824 | 7 | 207 | 58 | 14 | 3–? |
| Billy Beldham | England | Surrey | 1806 | 1806 | 1 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1–? |
| Edward Bligh | Ireland | MCC | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 40 | 22 | 2 | 1–? |
| E. H. Budd | England | MCC | 1806 | 1830 | 9 | 315 | 69 | 8 | 2–? |
| Thomas Burgoyne | England | Middlesex | 1806 | 1806 | 1 | 10 | 6* | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Lambert | England | Surrey | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 102 | 57 | 4 | 4–? |
| George Leycester | England | MCC | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Nyren | England | Hampshire | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Pontifex | England | Middlesex | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Arthur Upton | Ireland | MCC | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Warren | England | Hampshire | 1806 | 1806 | 1 | 2 | 2* | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Willes | England | Kent | 1806 | 1806 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1–? |
| John Brand | England | MCC | 1819 | 1825 | 5 | 72 | 19 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Samuel Cockerill | England | MCC | 1819 | 1819 | 1 | 29 | 24 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Algernon Greville | England | MCC | 1819 | 1819 | 1 | 12 | 12* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Greville | England | MCC | 1819 | 1827 | 2 | 43 | 36 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry Lowther | England | MCC | 1819 | 1820 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0–0 |
| John Mills | England | Hampshire | 1819 | 1819 | 1 | 3 | 2* | 0 | 0–0 |
| George Parry | England | MCC | 1819 | 1829 | 3 | 55 | 30 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Daniel Stacey | England | MCC | 1819 | 1819 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Ward | England | MCC | 1819 | 1838 | 18 | 570 | 102* | 2 | 1–? |
| Thomas Bache | England | MCC | 1820 | 1822 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Thomas Howard | England | Hampshire | 1820 | 1820 | 1 | 37 | 26 | 5 | 4–? |
| Henry T. Lane | England | MCC | 1820 | 1827 | 2 | 6 | 3* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Richard Lane | England | MCC | 1820 | 1822 | 2 | 30 | 25 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry J. Lloyd | England | MCC | 1820 | 1830 | 9 | 99 | 37 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Thomas Vigne | England | MCC | 1820 | 1830 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 0–0 |
| C. J. Barnett | England | MCC | 1821 | 1827 | 7 | 43 | 19* | 0 | 0–0 |
| J. E. G. Bayley | England | MCC | 1821 | 1821 | 1 | 1 | 1* | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Deedes | England | MCC | 1821 | 1825 | 4 | 33 | 16 | 5 | 3–? |
| Thomas Nicoll | England | MCC | 1821 | 1824 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Tanner | England | MCC | 1821 | 1821 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0–0 |
| James Townsend | England | MCC | 1821 | 1831 | 4 | 36 | 12 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Barnard | England | MCC | 1822 | 1829 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Francis Nicholas | England | MCC | 1823 | 1827 | 5 | 100 | 51 | 9 | 3–? |
| William Sewell | England | MCC | 1823 | 1827 | 4 | 74 | 32 | 0 | 0–0 |
| James Grinham | England | Godalming | 1824 | 1824 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Keen | England | Surrey | 1824 | 1830 | 3 | 84 | 45 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Otway | England | Gentlemen | 1824 | 1825 | 2 | 25 | 13* | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Otway | England | Gentlemen | 1824 | 1825 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0–0 |
| – Roberts | England | Hampshire | 1824 | 1824 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 1–? |
| James de Visme | England | Gentlemen | 1825 | 1825 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0–0 |
| W. C. Dyer | England | MCC | 1825 | 1825 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry Kingscote | England | MCC | 1825 | 1834 | 8 | 172 | 38 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Knight | England | Kent | 1825 | 1827 | 3 | 54 | 24 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Mathews | England | Godalming | 1825 | 1825 | 1 | 27 | 24 | 8 | 7–? |
| John Willan | England | Hampshire | 1825 | 1825 | 1 | 4 | 4* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Lord Strathavon | England | MCC | 1827 | 1827 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| – Batt | England | Gentlemen | 1827 | 1827 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1–? |
| John Deedes | England | Kent | 1827 | 1829 | 3 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Percyvall Dyke | England | Kent | 1827 | 1833 | 3 | 64 | 19 | 2 | 2–? |
| Henry Everett | England | MCC | 1827 | 1827 | 1 | 12 | 8* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Francis Gordon | England | MCC | 1827 | 1827 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1–? |
| Herbert Jenner | England | Kent | 1827 | 1836 | 9 | 132 | 32 | 8 | 3–? |
| Henry Knatchbull | England | Kent | 1827 | 1839 | 6 | 60 | 25 | 0 | 0–0 |
| George T. Knight | England | Kent | 1827 | 1837 | 5 | 85 | 20 | 7 | 3–? |
| Henry Norman | England | Kent | 1827 | 1833 | 4 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Rocke | England | Kent | 1827 | 1827 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Romilly | England | MCC | 1827 | 1827 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Jem Broadbridge | England | Sussex | 1829 | 1829 | 1 | 43 | 33 | 5 | 3–? |
| William Lillywhite | England | Sussex | 1829 | 1830 | 2 | 0 | 0* | 20 | 8–? |
| William Potter | England | Surrey | 1829 | 1830 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Fuller Pilch | England | Kent | 1830 | 1838 | 2 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 2–? |
| Nicholas Felix | England | Kent | 1831 | 1852 | 19 | 400 | 88 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Harenc | England | Kent | 1831 | 1838 | 7 | 49 | 16 | 7 | 3–? |
| F. H. Hervey-Bathurst | England | MCC | 1831 | 1854 | 20 | 143 | 28 | 73 | 7–? |
| John Michell | England | Gentlemen | 1831 | 1831 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry Wodehouse | England | MCC | 1831 | 1833 | 2 | 10 | 6* | 0 | 0–0 |
| George Betts | England | Kent | 1832 | 1832 | 1 | 0 | 0* | 1 | 1–? |
| William Borradaile | England | MCC | 1832 | 1832 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| St Vincent Cotton | England | MCC | 1832 | 1835 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 0–0 |
| R. W. Keate | England | MCC | 1832 | 1837 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Alfred Mynn | England | Kent | 1832 | 1852 | 21 | 605 | 66 | 107 | 8–? |
| Lord Clonbrock | Ireland | MCC | 1833 | 1833 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Ellis | England | MCC | 1833 | 1833 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Roger Kynaston | England | MCC | 1833 | 1845 | 10 | 141 | 34 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Walter Mynn | England | Kent | 1833 | 1846 | 7 | 99 | 20 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Romilly | England | MCC | 1833 | 1833 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0–0 |
| J. Smith | England | Gentlemen | 1833 | 1833 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Strahan | England | MCC | 1833 | 1835 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Ellis | England | CUCC | 1834 | 1834 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1–? |
| Charles Parnther | England | MCC | 1834 | 1836 | 3 | 42 | 26 | 2 | 1–? |
| Hayter Reed | England | MCC | 1834 | 1834 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry Walker | England | MCC | 1834 | 1836 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Wilkinson | England | CUCC | 1834 | 1834 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| James Cobbett | England | MCC | 1835 | 1838 | 2 | 27 | 23 | 14 | 6–? |
| Sam Redgate | England | Nottingham | 1835 | 1835 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2–? |
| Henry Snow | England | MCC | 1835 | 1835 | 1 | 26 | 24 | 0 | 0–0 |
| C. Beecham | England | Gentlemen | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 0 | 0* | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Brown | England | MCC | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Buller | England | MCC | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Nicholas Darnell | England | OUCC | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Grimston | England | MCC | 1836 | 1839 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 0–0 |
| James Grimston | England | MCC | 1836 | 1839 | 2 | 52 | 21 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Alfred Lowth | England | OUCC | 1836 | 1841 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 5–? |
| William Pakenham | England | Gentlemen | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Pickering | England | MCC | 1836 | 1844 | 2 | 52 | 20* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Frederick Pigou | England | MCC | 1836 | 1836 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0–0 |
| F. G. B. Ponsonby | England | MCC | 1836 | 1845 | 8 | 113 | 23 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Strange | England | MCC | 1836 | 1838 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 4–? |
| Charles Taylor | England | Sussex | 1836 | 1846 | 12 | 290 | 89 | 29 | 5–46 |
| Charles Beauclerk | England | MCC | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Algernon Coote | Ireland | OUCC | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 8 | 7* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Thomas Craven | England | Middlesex | 1837 | 1843 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5–? |
| Alfred Jackson | England | Gentlemen | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| John Kirwan | Wales | CUCC | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4–? |
| Thomas Lewis | England | Surrey | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| William Meyrick | Wales | MCC | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Richard Nicholson | England | MCC | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0–0 |
| George Plank | England | Gentlemen | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Charles Whyting | England | Surrey | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 3 | 3* | 0 | 0–0 |
| George Whyting | England | Surrey | 1837 | 1837 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Ned Wenman | England | Kent | 1838 | 1838 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edward Sayres | England | MCC | 1839 | 1840 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2–? |
| Charles Whittaker | England | Kent | 1839 | 1845 | 5 | 60 | 9* | 4 | 3–? |
| Thomas Anson | England | MCC | 1840 | 1845 | 6 | 92 | 17* | 0 | 0–0 |
| Henry Hand | England | CUCC | 1840 | 1840 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0–0 |
| Edwin Napper | England | Sussex County Cricket Club | 1840 | 1858 | 8 | 135 | 33 | 4 | 3–18 |