Charles Pryor

Charles Stuart Pryor (15 February 1815 – 4 April 1897) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Cambridge Town Club, Cambridge University and an England XI between 1833 and 1859.^[1] He was born at Cambridge and died at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.

Pryor was a right-handed batsman and a bowler, though his bowling style is not known. He played regularly for the Cambridge Town Club for more than a quarter of a century, and also played for the Cambridge Town and County Club and the Cambridge Townsmen teams, which were alternative names for the same side. In 1839, he played a single game for Cambridge University, but there is no record that he was ever a student at the university, and 23 of his first-class matches were against the university side; the same year he also appeared for "An England XI" against the Marylebone Cricket Club, but otherwise his first-class matches were all for Cambridge teams.^[1] His single game for Cambridge University was one of his more successful with the bat, as he scored 27 in each innings.^[2] His highest score – more than three times more than any other innings he played – was an innings of 103 for the Cambridge Town and County Club against Cambridge University in 1844.^[3]

Pryor's father Stephen and his son Francis both played first-class cricket for the Cambridge Town Club; his son also played for Cambridgeshire in the period when that side's matches were sometimes rated as first-class.

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