Peter Bramley (cricketer)

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Peter Bramley (1785 – 5 November 1838) was a publican and Nottingham cricketer. He kept the kept the Old Spot in Daybrook and was also a good cards player, fives player and runner. As a cricketer, he fielded well in the covers and was a strong batsman. He represented Nottingham from 1813 to 1826.

Described as a "blackleg and a man without any conscious"^[1], Bramley was a notorious gambler and, according to Peter Wynne-Thomas, "a man to be avoided".^[2] However, on his death in November 1838, at the age of fifty-three, he was discovered to have been fundamentally (if covertly) kind at heart, and undeserving of his ill repute.

Bramley was one of eleven men who took part in the county's first-ever first-class fixture, against Leicester and Sheffield in 1826, when Tom Marsden hit up an unprecedented 227, routing the neophytes by an innings and 203 runs.