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Herbert John Edwin Burrell (15 November 1866 – 22 May 1949) was an English cleric and cricketer. He played in first-class cricket games for Oxford University in 1889 and for Essex in 1895.

Life

The son of John Burrell of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, Burrell was educated at Charterhouse School and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1885. He graduated B.A. in 1889 and M.A. in 1892.

Burrell was ordained deacon in 1890, and priest of the Church of England in 1891. He then attended Cuddesdon Theological College. He was chaplain to John Festing, Bishop of St Albans, in 1894, and became vicar of Wigginton, Hertfordshire in 1899. He was rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, 1910–34.

During the First World War Burrell was a secretary and orderly in Balsham Red Cross Hospital.

His younger brother John also played first-class cricket.

Burrell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

References

1. Herbert Burrell at ESPNcricinfo
2. ^ Charterhouse School (1911). Charterhouse Register, 1872-1910. Vol. I. Propietors at the Chiswick Press. p. 190.
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Burrell, Herbert John Edwin" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
4. Herbert Burrell at CricketArchive (subscription required)
5. ^ The Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook. S. Sonnenschein & co., ltd. 1904. p. 91.
6. "Church Stained Glass". Balsham Parish Council.
7. "Revd. Herbert John Edwin Burrell". British Red Cross.
8. The Antiquaries Journal. Oxford University Press. 1930. p. 200.

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