Archie Wickham
English cricketer

Archie Wickham

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English cricketer
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9 November 1855
Death:
13 October 1935
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Archdale Palmer Wickham (9 November 1855 – 13 October 1935) was a first-class cricketer who played 82 matches for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1907. He also played for a number of representative teams and for Oxford University, and played second-class cricket for Norfolk County Cricket Club from 1881 to 1890. A wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman, he scored 760 career first-class runs, and claimed 90 catches and 60 stumpings.

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An Anglican minister, Wickham was prebendary of Wells Cathedral, and vicar of the Church of St Mary, East Brent from 1911 until his death in 1935. Wickham had at least two sons.