1825 English cricket season

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In the 1825 English cricket season, the Lord's pavilion was burned down.

1 First-class matches
2 Events
3 Leading batsmen
4 Leading bowlers
5 References

[edit] First-class matches

[edit] Events

Thurs 28 July. A schools match at Lord’s between Harrow and Winchester had just concluded and then, during the night, the pavilion burned down with the consequent loss of valuable scorecards, records and trophies. Thomas Lord claimed he lost £2600 in paid subscriptions, none of which were ever recovered. Which begs the questions of why it wasn’t in the bank and why he apparently wasn’t insured!

William Ward purchased the lease of Lord’s ground from Thomas Lord, who retained freehold. Lord had been proposing to build houses on the land which brought cries of outrage from the gentlemen players. Ward, a rich banker as well as a fine batsman, stepped in and bought the leasehold to save the ground for cricket.

Even so, it was many years before the famous ground’s future was secured. The lease was transferred to Mr James H Dark in 1835 and he retained proprietry till 1864. Then the freehold was sold in 1860 to a property speculator called Mr Moses for £7,000 and MCC did not bid! In 1864, MCC finally did purchase the freehold but paid £18,333 6s 8d for it with money advanced by William Nicholson. The lease expired same year and so, at last, Lord’s was owned in its entirety by MCC.