Valentine Faithfull

Rev Valentine Grantham Faithfull FRSE (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.

Life

23 Royal Circus, Edinburgh
The grave of Valentine Faithfull, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born on 25 June 1820 the son of Rev Francis Joseph Faithfull in Bishop's Hatfield.[2]

Faithfull was educated at Harrow School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[3] 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.[4]

Faithfull was ordained as a Church of England clergyman after graduation.[3] 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[3] under Rev David Drummond.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1862, his proposer being Rev. James Hodson. He resigned in 1863.[5]

He died at home at 23 Royal Circus in Edinburgh.[6] He is buried in Dean Cemetery on the west side of the city. The recumbent stone lies east of the large obelisk to the singer, John Wilson (at one of the path junctions).

References

  1. ↑ "Valentine Faithfull". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  2. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. 1 2 3 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Valentine Faithfull". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 453. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 1 July 1841. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  5. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  6. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1891-92
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