Mortimer Tollemache

Mortimer Granville Tollemache (12 April 1872 – 27 March 1950) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in nine matches for Cambridge University between 1891 and 1893.^[1] He was born at Westminster, London and died at Sudbury, Suffolk.

Tollemache was the eleventh son of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache and one of 14 children.^[2] He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, though the directory of Cambridge University alumni does not state that he emerged with a degree.^[2] As a cricketer, he played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and appeared three times in the Eton v Harrow match.^[1] At Cambridge, he was played in early season matches across all three years from 1891 to 1893, but failed to make much impact, and was not awarded a Blue in any of the seasons. His best score in his nine games was 28, made in the second innings of his second game in 1891, a match between the Cambridge eleven and a scratch side raised by A. J. Webbe.^[3]

Tollemache became a banker, based at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. In the First World War, he served as a captain in the Suffolk Regiment's Territorial Force and was mentioned in dispatches.^[2]

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