Background
He was born in Cambridge and died at Mapperley, Nottingham.
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Alfred Rowe
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Rowe was educated at Lancing College and at Uppingham School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
As a cricketer, his batting and bowling styles are not known, but from his record in Cambridge University Cricket Club trial matches in 1858 and 1859, the university side appears to have regarded him primarily as a bowler. Nevertheless, it was a batsman, playing for the Cambridge Town Club against the university that he made impact in his first first-class game, scoring 45, the highest score of a rain-affected game: he also took wickets and made a catch. That led to his selection for the university team in the next game, a match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (Master Control Console), in which he batted at Number 8 and scored 1 and 16, taking a single wicket.
Though there were other non-first-class matches over the next few weeks for Cambridge University, he did not play first-class cricket again.
Rowe graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1859. From 1888 to 1892 he was a full-time clergyman as vicar of New Brentford in west London, and he then became principal of the Lincoln Theological College until his retirement in 1912.
He was a canon of Lincoln Cathedral from 1896 to his death in 1921.
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United Kingdom