{{short description|English cricketer and solicitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Charles Windham Foley | birth_date = 26 August 1856 | birth_place = Wadhurst, Sussex, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1933|11|20|1856|8|26|df=y}} | death_place = Kensington, London, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1880 | club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year2 = 1891 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 7 | runs1 = 51 | bat avg1 = 4.63 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 12 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 7/12 | date = 22 April | year = 2021 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13106.html Cricinfo }}
'''Charles Windham Foley''' (26 August 1856 – 20 November 1933) was an English first-class cricketer and solicitor.
The son of John Foley, he was born in August 1856 at Wadhurst, Sussex. He was educated at Eton College, where he was in the cricket eleven.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228178.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1933|date=2 December 2005|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2021-04-22}}</ref> From Eton he went up to King's College, Cambridge.<ref name="CAM">{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=4|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=526|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft|language=en}}</ref> He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1880, making six appearances. He played in The University Match against Oxford University at Lord's,<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29450/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Foley|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-22|url-access=subscription}}</ref> for which he gained his cricket blue.<ref name="OBIT"/> He played as the Cambridge wicket-keeper in these match, taking 6 catches and made 12 stumpings. As a lower-order batsman, he scored 39 with a highest score of 12.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29450/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Charles Foley|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-22|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was described by ''Wisden'' as "an average batsman". It was noted that he was a left-handed batsman until the age of 15, after which he changed to become a right-handed batsman on what ''Wisden'' described as "foolish advice".<ref name="OBIT"/> Alongside playing cricket, Foley also played football for Cambridge University A.F.C. as a full-back,<ref name="OBIT"/> for which he gained a football blue in 1880.<ref name="CAM"/>
Foley also won an FA Cup winners' medal with the Old Etonians, playing as half-back on the winning side in the 1882 FA Cup final.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Programme |title=Football Association Challenge Cup - Final Tie 1881–82 |date=25 March 1882 |publisher=Cricket Press |location=London}}</ref>
After graduating from Cambridge, Foley became a solicitor.<ref name="CAM"/> Eleven years after he last played first-class cricket, he made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Somerset at Taunton in August 1891.<ref name="FCM"/> He made scores of 0 and 12 in the match, being dismissed by Bill Roe and Gerald Fowler in the MCC first and second innings' respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3750.html|title=Somerset v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1891|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-22|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Foley moved to British India in 1892, where he was a partner in the law firm Morgan & Co. in Calcutta until 1919. He returned to England in his later life, where he retired to Kensington.<ref name="CAM"/> He died there in November 1933.<ref name="OBIT"/>
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=13106}}
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