Livingston Middlemost

{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Livingston Middlemost | birth_date = 1 April 1839 | birth_place = Westoe, County Durham, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1897|10|28|1839|4|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England | nickname = | family = | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Unknown | bowling = | role = | club1 = | year1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 21 | bat avg1 = 7.00 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 17 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 31 March | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17551.html Cricinfo }}

'''Livingston Middlemost''' (1 April 1839 – 28 October 1897) was an English first-class cricketer.

Middlemost was born at Westoe, South Shields. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the North against Surrey at Salford in 1860.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31438/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Livingston Middlemost |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-31 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match, Middlemost was dismissed for 4 runs in the North's first-innings by H. H. Stephenson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1193.html |title=North v Surrey, 1860 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-31 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made a second first-class appearance seventeen years later for the Players of the North against the Gentlemen of the North at Huddersfield.<ref name="FCM"/> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a duck batting at number eleven in the Player's first-innings by William Mycroft, while in their second-innings he opened the batting, scoring 17 runs before retiring out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2154.html |title=Gentlemen of the North v Players of the North, 1877 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-03-31 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

By profession, he was a woollen manufacturer and merchant.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24116|date=24 July 1874|page=3690}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26227|date=27 November 1891|page=6585}}</ref> A year prior to his death he had travelled to Australia for health reasons.<ref name="UGH">{{cite web|url=https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/a-catalogue-of-the-textile-mills-and-factories-of-the-huddersfield-area-c-1790-1914/ |title=A Catalogue of the Textile Mills and Factories of the Huddersfield Area C.1790-1914 |publisher=Underground Histories |accessdate=2019-03-31}}</ref> He died suddenly on 28 October 1897 at Huddersfield, having returned from playing golf at Fixby.<ref name="UGH"/>

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