Charles Goldie (cricketer)

Charles Dashwood Goldie (26 March 1826 – 11 January 1886) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University fleetingly in 1846.[1] He was born in Paris, France and died in St Ives, then in Huntingdonshire. Some sources give the year of his birth as 1825.[2][3]

Goldie graduated from Cambridge University in 1847 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England.[2] He was priest in charge at High Toynton, Lincolnshire in 1851 and then from 1852 to 1866 he had the same position at St Thomas's Church, Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire. From 1866 to his death he was vicar of St Ives.[2] Goldie's tenure at St Ives was controversial and his "ritualistic proceedings" alienated many of the congregation; he also attempted to impose church rates and was consistently and successfully opposed on that and on his candidates for the post of churchwarden in "stormy" parish meetings that attracted hundreds of people.[3]

Goldie's first-class cricket career was accidental. In the 1846 University Match between Cambridge University and Oxford University, held at Oxford, the Cambridge batsman John Walker did not appear for the match; the Cambridge team batted one man short in the first innings, but Goldie was co-opted to bat at No 11 in the second innings, and scored one run.[4]

Goldie married Harriet Nicol, the daughter of a Bengal Army colonel, in 1848; among their children was John Goldie, who won fame in rowing at Cambridge and at Henley and after whom the Goldie second string Cambridge University rowing team is named.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Charles Goldie". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Charles Goldie". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 74. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. 1 2 "St Ives: The Late Rev. C. D. Goldie M.A.". Cambridge Independent Press/British Newspaper Archive (Cambridge). 23 January 1886. p. 5. (subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ Note: the www.cricketarchive.com scorecard indicates that it was Goldie who was absent in the first innings, but the contemporary report here shows that Walker was the missing Cambridge batsman. "Cricket: The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge". London Standard/British Newspaper Archive (London). 13 June 1846. p. 4. (subscription required (help)).
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