Lionel Algernon White (1850-1917)

Post date: Jan 30, 2021 7:18:28 PM

Contributed by Ian Lambert of Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, sourced from "Who's Who of Cricketers" by Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynne-Thomas.

Lionel Algernon White, b Wateringbury 1850 d Tunbridge Wells 1917. Kent- 1869. 4 matches. RH Bat. 84 Runs HS 34 (v Sussex at Tunbridge Wells) Av 10.50. In eight innings he failed to score in three, two of which were in the same match against Notts at Nottingham. In that match his cousin Edward Albert White, b Yalding 1844, was also playing. A RH opening bat, it was one of 29 matches he played for Kent, scoring 827 runs, HS 81, Av 15.60.

TAB note: he came from the White family, son of Thomas, a substantial (174 acres) farmer, and Louisa and living in the 1851 census at Park House with his parents, 4 siblings and 5 servants. One elder brother was Thomas Archibald Starnes White who in 1871 went to Baden-Baden as chaplain to the English community and had a major impact on the development of German soccer.

Lionel in the 1861 was in London with the family (temporarily?) but then disappears from the census records until he reappears in 1901 as a retired Lieutenant Colonel with a wife born in Bermuda and a daughter.