fullname country date death_date death_place club birth_place columns role year birth_date source batting article_title name bowling
john tufton england 1773 november 23 yes 27 may 1799 england marylebone cricket club -lrb- mcc -rrb- england 0 batsman 1793 to 1798 2014 1773 november 23 yes cricketarchive unknown hand john tufton -lrb- cricketer -rrb-
 john tufton underarm ; unknown hand and style
john tufton -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

john tufton -lrb- 23 november 1773 -- 27 may 1799 -rrb- was an english cricketer and a member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- .
he was a member of the aristocratic tufton family that produced the earls of thanet and related through his mother to the sackville family that produced the dukes of dorset .
as a cricketer , tufton is known to have been active from 1793 to 1798 and is recorded in 74 matches by `` cricketarchive '' , 48 of which are designated first-class .
he represented numerous teams but is mainly associated with marylebone cricket club , of which he was an early member at lord 's old ground .
tufton 's batting hand and bowling speed are unknown , though he was primarily a batsman who bowled occasionally , always underarm .
he scored 1,049 known first-class runs with a highest score of 61 and is credited with fourteen first-class wickets including a best performance of four in one innings .
tufton was the mp for appleby , westmorland from 1796 until his death , aged 25 , in 1799 .
