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Jan 18, 1864 Aldershot, England, United Kingdom Died on 14 Dec 1950 (aged 86)
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About Edgar Sheldrake
- Edgar Francis Talman Sheldrake (18 January 1864 – 14 December 1950) was an English first-class cricketer.
- Sheldrake was a right-handed batsman and a fast bowler. Edgar Sheldrake was born in Aldershot in Hampshire in 1864, the son of William Henry Sheldrake (1816-1885), a stationer and printer of Sheldrake's Aldershot Military Gazette, and Caroline Ann née Beadnell (1821-1885); he was baptised at St Michael's church in Aldershot in March 1864.
- As a young man he joined his father's publishing and printing business in Aldershot.Sheldrake represented Hampshire in three first-class matches.
- The first came in 1884 against Sussex.
- His final first-class match came against Surrey in the 1885 season, which was to be Hampshire's final season as a first-class county until the 1895 County Championship. On 3 February 1900 he married Lucy Maunde (1862-1935) at St Bartholomew's church in Haslemere in Surrey.
- There were no children from the marriage.
- After his cricketing career he continued to work for the family newsagent and stationers business.Sheldrake died in Surbiton, Surrey on 14 December 1950.
