Edward Armitage (cricketer)

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Personal information
Edward Armitage
England
Full name	Edward Leathley Armitage
Born	26 April 1891(1891-04-26)
	Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
Died	24 November 1957 (aged 66)
	St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1933	Viceroy's XI
1929-1931	MCC
1929	Europeans (India)
1929	Free Foresters
1921-1929	Army
1919-1925	Hampshire
First-class debut	13 August 1919: Hampshire v Essex
Last First-class	6 February 1933: Viceroy's XI v Roshanara Club
Career statistics
	First-class
Matches	20
Runs scored	576
Batting average	17.45
100s/50s	1/1
Top score	105

Balls bowled	958
Wickets	26
Bowling average	18.30
5 wickets in innings	1
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	5/67
Catches/stumpings	11/0
As of 15 December 2007 Source: CricketArchive

Edward Leathley Armitage (born 26 April 1891 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland; died 24 November 1957 in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England) was an Irish born English cricketer,^[1] the son of John Leathley Armitage (1857-1938) and his wife Annie Jessie, née Nicholas.^{[citation needed]} A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played first-class cricket for several teams between 1919 and 1933.^[2]

[edit] Career

Armitage made his first-class debut in August 1919, for Hampshire in a County Championship match against Essex, playing three more County Championship matches that month. He played just once in 1920, against Leicestershire. In 1921 he played twice for Hampshire, against Oxford University and Kent; and twice for the Army, against Cambridge University and Oxford University.^[3]

In 1924, after a first-class match for the Army against Cambridge University,^[3] he played two matches for the MCC against his native Ireland, in Dublin and Belfast.^[4] He played for the Army against Oxford University and the Royal Navy in 1925, a season in which he played his final first-class match for Hampshire, against Worcestershire.^[3]

In 1926 he played for Malaya against Hong Kong and for the Straits Settlements against the Federated Malay States.^[4] He returned to English cricket in 1929, playing for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University, for the Army against the RAF and the Royal Navy, and for the MCC against Oxford University^[3] and Ireland.^[4] Later that year he played a first-class match in India as part of the Bombay Quadrangular tournament.^[3]

His final first-class matches were in 1931 for the MCC against Oxford University, and in 1933 for the Viceroy's XI against Roshanara Club in Delhi.^[3]

On 28 April 1945, in London, he married Lady Katherine Jane Elizabeth Manley, née Carnegie, daughter of the 10th Earl of Northesk, as her second husband. They had no children.^{[citation needed]}