page_title: Thomas Lord
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Lord / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: West Meon, St John the Evangelist, Thomas Lord's tomb
context_page_description: Thomas Lord was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1787 to 1802. He made a brief comeback, playing in one further match in 1815. Overall, Lord made 90 known appearances in first-class cricket. He was mostly associated with Middlesex and with Marylebone Cricket Club as a ground staff bowler.
  Lord is best remembered as the founder of Lord's Cricket Ground.
context_section_description: Lord remained in St John's Wood till 1830 when he retired to West Meon in Hampshire, where he died in 1832. His son, also Thomas Lord, and born in Marylebone on 27 December 1794, was also a first-class cricketer.
  Thomas Lord is buried in the churchyard of St John's Church at West Meon. The village has a public house named after him and is just a few miles from Hambledon, home of the famous Hambledon Cricket Club.
caption: St John the Evangelist, West Meon
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