{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Henry Munn | country = England | fullname = Henry Oldman Munn | birth_date = 1835 | birth_place = Bobbing, Kent, England | death_date = 18 July 1864 (aged 28/29) | death_place = Canterbury, Kent, England | family = | batting = | bowling = | club1 = Gentlemen of Kent | year1 = 1862 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 23 | bat avg1 = 11.50 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 23 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 29 July | year = 2020 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17927.html Cricinfo }}
'''Henry Oldman Munn''' (1835 – 18 July 1864) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The eldest son of William Munn and his first wife Elizabeth (''née'' Hilton), Henry Munn was born in 1835. The family lived at Throwley House at Sheldwich near Faversham in Kent, and Munn was christened at Bobbing in September 1835.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The County Families of the United Kingdom |first=Edward |last=Walford |date=1860 |page=459 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-gNAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref name=gm>{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review |publisher=J.H. and J. Parker |date=1861 |page=197 |volume=211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00tFAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37363/37363.html Henry Munn], CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 March 2025. {{subscription}}</ref><ref name=cant>Robertson S (1889) Sheldwich Church, in ''Archaeologia Cantiana'', vol. 18, pp. 208–303. ([https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/journal/18/st-james-church-sheldwich Available online] at Kent Archaeological Society. Retrieved 18 March 2025.)</ref> He was educated at Eton College,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Eton School Lists, from 1791 to 1850 |date=1863 |first=Henry Edward |last=Chetwynd-Stapylton |publisher=E.P. Williams |page=234 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L80HAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref> before being commissioned in the East Kent Militia as a lieutenant in December 1853, a regiment that his father had served in as a major.<ref name="BOOK"/><ref>{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=6343|date=16 December 1853|page=1008}}</ref> However in August 1854, he had joined the 13th Light Dragoons as a cornet by purchase.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21578|date=4 August 1854|page=2391}}</ref> He was promoted to lieutenant without purchase in July 1855,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21796|date=9 October 1955|page=3721}}</ref> later being promoted to captain in October 1862.<ref>{{London Gazette|city=Edinburgh|issue=7264|date=7 October 1862|page=1546}}</ref>
In the same year as his promotion to captain, Munn made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club during Canterbury Cricket Week.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37363/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Munn |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-29 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was run out in the Gentlemen of Kent first innings for 23 runs, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by E. M. Grace.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1267.html |title=Gentlemen of Kent v Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club, 1862 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-29 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Munn married Isabella Frances Toke in 1861.<ref name=gm/> He died at Canterbury in July 1864.<ref name="BOOK"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Munn, Henry}} Category:1835 births Category:1864 deaths Category:People from Bobbing, Kent Category:People educated at Eton College Category:13th Hussars officers Category:English cricketers Category:Gentlemen of Kent cricketers Category:Cricketers from Kent Category:19th-century English sportsmen