{{short description|English schoolmaster and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} '''Henry Mathwin''' (23 August 1852 – 31 December 1911) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1874.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31314/31314.html| title = Henry Mathwin | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 7 September 2014}}</ref> He was born at Bolton le Moors, Lancashire and died at Birkdale, also then in Lancashire.
Mathwin was educated at Bickerton House School, a school in Birkdale set up by his father, who shared his full name, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft#page/360/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Henry Mathwin | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 4| page = 361 | access-date = 9 September 2014}}</ref> As a cricketer, he was a middle-order batsman in his single first-class match, though it is not known if he was right- or left-handed; he scored 17 and was 1 not out when the University team won the match.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1865.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club | date = 21 May 1874 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 9 September 2014}}</ref>
Mathwin became a schoolmaster when he left Cambridge University; he eventually succeeded his father as headmaster of Bickerton House School in Birkdale, though had given up the position before he died aged 59.<ref name="venn"/>
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