Charles Coppinger Explained

Charles Coppinger (10 April 1851 – 1 August 1877) was an English cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club at the age of 19 in 1870.[1]

Coppinger was born in Bexleyheath in Kent in 1851, the son of Edward and Mildred Coppinger. His father was a publican and came from a cricketing family.[2] [3] Coppinger played club cricket for sides such as New Cross and Woolwich and made his only first-class appearance for Kent against Surrey at The Oval in 1870, scoring 13 runs in his two innings.[2] [4]

Like his father Coppinger also worked as a publican, first at Eltham and then at New Cross. He married Jane Hutchinson in 1874; the couple had one daughter who died as an infant. Coppinger himself died at New Cross in 1877 of rheumatic fever and acute meningitis aged 26.[2] Two of his brothers, Edward and William, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11318.html Charles Coppinger
  2. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 123–124. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228171.html Coppinger, Edward Thomas
  4. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28721/28721.html Charles Coppinger