Joseph Cotterill (cricketer)

Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill, CMG, FRCS (23 November 1851 – 30 December 1933) was an English cricketer and medical practitioner.

Early life

The son of the Anglican bishop Henry Cotterill and Anna Isabella Parnther, he was born at Kemp Town, Sussex.^[1]

Cricket

A right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace, Cotterill made his first-class debut for Sussex against Surrey at the Royal Brunswick Ground in 1870.^[2] He made a further first-class appearance in that season against Kent and followed that up three years later by making four further appearances for the county and made the same number of appearances in 1874.^[2] In 1875, Cotterill made a single first-class appearances each for the South in the North v South fixture, the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the North, and for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture.^[2] He made three first-class appearances for Sussex in 1875 and five in 1876. He captained Sussex in 1874 and 1875. The following year he made three first-class appearances for the South against the North and for the Gentlemen against the Players, while appearing twice for Sussex. He also made a single first-class appearance for England against Gloucestershire at The Oval.^[2] It would be eleven years before his next appearance in first-class cricket, when he made five appearances for Sussex in 1888, the last of which came against Lancashire at the County Ground, Hove.^[2] 27 of Cotterill's first-class matches came for Sussex, with him scoring 1,328 runs at an average of 28.86, with eight half centuries and a single century.^[3] His only century was a score of 191 against Kent in 1875.^[4]

Medical career and later life

He died at Edinburgh, Scotland on 30 December 1933. His brother George Edward Cotterill and nephew George Huth Cotterill both played first-class cricket.

References

External links

• Joseph Cotterill at ESPNcricinfo
• Joseph Cotterill at CricketArchive