Alfred Potter

{{short description|English clergyman and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} '''Alfred Potter''' (15 December 1827 – 21 September 1878) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1849.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37523/37523.html | title = Alfred Potter | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 14 January 2015}}</ref> He was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire and died at Nottingham.

Potter was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/166/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Alfred Potter | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5 | page = 166 | accessdate = 14 January 2015}}</ref> As a cricketer, he was a tail-end batsman and a bowler; his batting and bowling styles are not known.<ref name="ca"/> Playing for Cambridge against the Marylebone Cricket Club, he took five wickets in the MCC second innings, though the complete figures are not recorded.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/850.html | title = Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University | date = 14 June 1849| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 14 January 2015}}</ref> That led to his selection for the 1849 University Match against Oxford University, which Cambridge won narrowly and in which he took two wickets.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/853.html | title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University | date = 21 June 1849| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 15 January 2015}}</ref> That was his final game of first-class cricket.

Potter graduated from Cambridge University in 1850 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.<ref name="venn"/> He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and served as a curate at Mablethorpe, Skirbeck, and Ropsley, all in Lincolnshire. From 1860 to his death in 1878 he was rector of Keyworth, Nottinghamshire and from 1876 he combined that post with being rector of Stanton-on-the-Wolds as well.<ref name="venn"/>

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