Richard Newland
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Richard Newland (christened 2 March 1718 at Slindon, Sussex; died 29 May 1791 at Bath) was a noted English cricketer who played for the famous Slindon club under the patronage of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
Newland was an all-rounder who batted left-handed. Two of his brothers, Adam (born 1714) and John (born 1717), also played for Slindon but nothing is known of them apart from what appears in the match reports. The Newland brothers were the uncles of Richard Nyren, who later became famous as the club captain at Hambledon.
Newland also played for various All-England teams including the famous match at the Artillery Ground in 1744.
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- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Early Kent Cricketers by John Goulstone (EKC)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
