Nathaniel Bland
Nathaniel Bland (3 February 1803 – 10 August 1865), born Nathaniel Crumpe, was an English orientalist and a first-class cricketer who played for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1836 and 1841. He was born in Liverpool and but later committed suicide in Homburg after losing his fortune to gambling. He appeared in two first-class matches. Life. He was the son of Nathaniel Bland-Crumpe, who was Irish, originally Nathaniel Crumpe but having taken the additional surname of his mother Dorothea Bland, who resided at Randalls Park, Leatherhead which he bought in 1812. His mother's surname was O'Neill . Bland entered Eton College in 1818, and joined Christ Church college at Oxford in 1823, where he studied Persian language. He graduated B.A. in 1825. He was a bibliophile and many oriental manuscripts at the John Rylands Library can be traced back to Bland. Bland was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.