Valentine Faithfull

Valentine Grantham Faithfull (25 June 1820 – 30 May 1894) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1841.^[1] He was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire and died at Edinburgh, Scotland.

Faithfull was educated at Harrow School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[2] His single game of first-class cricket came in 1841 when he scored 0 and 1 playing as a lower-order batsman for Cambridge against the Marylebone Cricket Club; the full scorecard is not available for this match, so it is not known if he bowled, and nor is his batting style known.^[3]

Faithfull was ordained as a Church of England clergyman after graduation.^[2] He served as a curate at Hatfield, where his father was rector, and then from 1848 until his death in 1894 he held posts in Edinburgh, being the incumbent at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Dean Bridge, from 1851 to 1888.^[2]

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