{{short description|English clergyman and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} '''Claudius Stephen Magnay''' (8 May 1819 – 17 December 1870), known as '''Claude''', was an English clergyman, a writer, and a cricketer who played first-class cricket in a single match for Cambridge University in 1841.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37249/37249.html| title = Claude Magnay | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 27 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="ci">{{cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17815.html | title = Claude Magnay| publisher = ESPNcricinfo| accessdate = 1 October 2017}}</ref> He was born at Clapham, London and died at Bedford.

Magnay was the son of Christopher Magnay who was Lord Mayor of London in 1821-22 and the brother of Sir William Magnay, 1st Baronet, who was Lord Mayor in 1843.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft#page/290/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Claudius Magnay | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 4| page = 290 | accessdate = 29 August 2014}}</ref> He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey and at Clare College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn"/> While at Cambridge University, he made a single appearance for the university cricket team in a match at Lord's against Marylebone Cricket Club; he batted at No 11 and failed to score in either innings, being not out once.<ref name="ca"/> The scorecard for the match is incomplete and it is not known if he bowled.

After graduating from Cambridge, Magnay was ordained as a clergyman in the Church of England; he was curate at parishes in Hampshire, Dorset and, from 1857 to his death in 1870, at Hemyock in Devon.<ref name="venn"/> He was also a published author and poet; among his books is a novel, ''Reginald Græme, or Visible and Invisible''.<ref name="venn"/>

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