Player: | AJ Abdy |
ABDY, Anthony John
Amateur.
Born at Cambridge, 26th April 1856.
Died at La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, 4th July 1924.
He was the son of J.T.Abdy, Regis Professor of Law at Cambridge and a County Court Judge. He was educated at Charterhouse, in London. He joined the Army and became a notable Army cricketer with the Royal Artillery, Southern Division and in 1876 he played for Essex in their pre-first-class days. His match for Hampshire in 1881 was his only first-class appearance. He soldiered on to become a Brigadier-General.
In the 1881 Census he is shown as living in the married quarters of Lieut-Col. Hope-Johnstone and his wife at “Fort Brockhurst”, Alverstoke, Hampshire. He was unmarried and at that stage had reached the rank of Lieutenant.
(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)
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