{{short description|English cricketer and barrister}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Joseph Dacre | birth_date = 6 November 1825 | birth_place = Chittor, Udaipur State,<br>British India | death_date = {{death date and age|1868|11|8|1825|11|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Coton Hill, Staffordshire, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Unknown | bowling = Unknown | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1845–1846 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 46 | bat avg1 = 9.20 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 17 | deliveries1 = ? | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = ? | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 1/? | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 23 April | year = 2021 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11911.html ESPNcricinfo }}
'''Joseph Dacre''' {{postnominal|JP}} (6 November 1825 – 8 November 1868) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of Joseph Dacre senior, who was a judge in British India, Dacre was born in British India at Chittor. He was educated in England at Rugby School,<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register |first=A. T. |last=Mitchell |date=1904 |volume=1 |publisher=A. J. Lawrence |location=Rugby |page=822 |url=https://archive.org/details/rugbyschoolregi00michgoog |language=en}}</ref> before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref name="CAM">{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=2|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=210|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft|language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he made three appearances in first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club. He played once in 1845 against Cambridge Town and County Club and twice in 1846, against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Parker's Piece and Lord's.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36636/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Joseph Dacre|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-23|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 46 runs in these matches with a highest score of 17,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36636/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Joseph Dacre|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-23|url-access=subscription}}</ref> in addition to taking a single wicket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36636/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Joseph Dacre|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-23|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
A student of Lincoln's Inn, Dacre was called to the bar in 1854. In later life he was a justice of the peace for Cumberland and in 1862 he was the mayor of Carlisle.<ref name="CAM"/><ref>Ancient Order Foresters. ''Carlisle Journal''. 19 December 1862. p. 4</ref> Dacre died in November 1868 at Coton Hill, Staffordshire, two days after his 43rd birthday.<ref>Marriages and deaths. ''Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer''. 12 November 1868. p. 4</ref>
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