Education
Joseph McCormick was educated at Bingley Grammar School and Street John"s College, Cambridge.
Joseph McCormick was educated at Bingley Grammar School and Street John"s College, Cambridge.
A right-handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club (Master Control Console), he made 19 known appearances in first-class matches. He claimed, while playing on Parker"s Piece, to have hit a fast bowler to leg and run nine runs for lieutenant In 1856, the year he captained Cambridge University at cricket, he was also a rowing blue.
He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series.
In later life McCormick was a clergyman, Canon of York Cathedral from 1884 to 1901, and Honorary Chaplain to Victoria of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII and King George V.