Country: | England |
Fullname: | Henry Edgar Meek |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1857 |
Birth Place: | Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
Death Place: | Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Club1: | Marylebone Cricket Club |
Year1: | 1878 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 0 |
Bat Avg1: | 0.00 |
100S/50S1: | –/– |
Top Score1: | 0 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
Date: | 12 October |
Year: | 2021 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10167.html Cricinfo |
Henry Edgar Meek (8 October 1857 — 23 June 1920) was an English first-class cricketer and brewer.
The son of Alexander Meek, he was born at Devizes in October 1857. He was educated at Harrow School, where he was a noted sportsman who played for the cricket and football teams, in addition to winning the Public Schools' Rackets competition in 1876 with Lewis Jarvis.[1] As a cricketer at Harrow, he was described by Wisden as "one of the hardest hitters ever turned out by Harrow, a good fast bowler and an excellent field at mid-off".[2] A year after captaining the Harrow cricket team, Meek made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Sussex at Lord's in 1878.[3] His only foray into first-class cricket ended in disappointment, with Meek being dismissed in the MCC's only innings for 0 by Richard Fillery.[4] Away from sport, he was by profession a brewer and was President of the Devizes Chamber of Commerce in 1908.[1] [5] Meek died in Scotland in June 1920 at Gullane, East Lothian.[2]