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The basics
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English cricketer
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Male
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Birth:
10 September 1795(Newark-on-Trent, Newark, Newark and Sherwood, United Kingdom)
Death:
6 July 1865(Clifton, City of Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom)
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Education:
Trinity College
The details
Biography
John Guthrie (born 10 September 1795 in Newark, Nottinghamshire; died 6 July 1865 in Clifton, Bristol) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University. He is recorded as a batsman in two matches in 1819, totalling 32 runs with a highest score of 22.
Guthrie was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating from Cambridge he became a Church of England priest and after other posts he was vicar of Calne, Wiltshire, from 1835 until his death. In Calne he and his wife founded a local school, the Guthrie School. He was appointed a canon of Bristol Cathedral in 1858 and was the first chairman of council of Clifton College, founded in 1862.