John Crawte

{{Short description|English cricketer (1763–1836)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = John Crawte | birth_date = 1763 | birth_place = Frensham, Surrey | death_date = 7 October {{death year and age|1836|1763}} | death_place = Boxley, Kent | batting = Left-handed | role = Batsman | club1 = England | year1 = {{nowrap|1788–1803}} | club2 = Surrey | year2 = 1788–1798 | club3 = Kent | year3 = 1789–1792 }} '''John Crawte''' (1763 – 7 October 1836) was an English cricketer who played as a left-handed batter{{sfn|Pycroft|1952|p=155}} during the period between 1788 and 1807.

==Early life== Crawte was born in Surrey and christened at Frensham in December 1763.<ref name=CA>{{cite web |url=https://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/36/36618/36618.html |title=John Crawte |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=17 January 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He is known to have lived in the Alresford area of Hampshire, and played for Alresford Cricket Club before he was persuaded to move to Kent by Stephen Amherst, a major patron of Kent matches, towards the end of the 18th century.<ref name=JA>{{cite web |url=https://www.alresfordhistandlit.co.uk/9%20Alresford%27s%20Famous%20Cricketers.pdf |last=Arlott |first=John |author-link=John Arlott |title=Alresford's Famous Cricketers |publisher=Alresford Historical and Literary Society |year=1978 |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref>{{sfn|Pycroft|1952|p=136}}

==Cricket career== Crawte was said to be a fine batsman who played David Harris, the best bowler of the era, better than anyone else.<ref name=JA/> He played in more than 70 matches between 1788 and 1807, mostly for England (i.e., the "rest" of England), Surrey, and Kent.<ref name=CA/> He also played for combined teams, and for those organised by Kent patrons like Richard Leigh and the Earl of Winchilsea. Crawte continued to play club cricket into the 1800s, mostly for Rochester Cricket Club.<ref name=CA/>

==Death== Crawte died, aged 72 or 73, in October 1836 at Boxley in Kent.<ref name=CA/>

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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Haygarth |first=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Haygarth |title=Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826) |publisher=Frederick Lillywhite |location=Kennington |year=1996 |orig-year=1862 |isbn=978-19-00592-23-9}} * {{cite book |last=Haygarth |first=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Haygarth |title=Scores & Biographies, Volume 2 (1827–1840) |publisher=Frederick Lillywhite |location=Kennington |year=1997 |orig-year=1862 |isbn=978-19-00592-23-9}} * {{cite book |editor-last=Lucas |editor-first=E. V. |editor-link=E. V. Lucas |title=The Hambledon Men |last=Pycroft |first=James |author-link=James Pycroft |chapter=The Hambledon Club and the Old Players |publisher=Sportsman's Book Club |location=London |year=1952 |orig-year=1907 |oclc=500497384 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hambledon_Men |via=Wikisource}}

==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=11695}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawte, John}} Category:English cricketers Category:English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Category:Kent cricketers Category:1763 births Category:1836 deaths Category:People from the Borough of Waverley Category:Surrey cricketers Category:Left-Handed v Right-Handed cricketers Category:R. Leigh's XI cricketers Category:West Kent cricketers Category:Cricketers from Surrey