Bruce Vernon-Wentworth
Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth (14 December 1862 – 12 November 1951) was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and first-class cricketer.[1]
The eldest son of Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth of
Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he received a commission into the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of captain.[1] A keen cricketer, he played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club on three occasions between 1897 and 1900,[3] scoring 133 runs at an average of 26.60 and with a high score of 36.[4]
A member of the Conservative Party, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of
High Sheriff of Yorkshire for the year 1908-09.[7]
Vernon-Wentworth was a director of the
London and Yorkshire Bank and of the Yorkshire local board of the National Provincial Bank Limited.[8][9] He sold Wentworth Castle to Barnsley Corporation in 1948, and died unmarried in 1951, aged 88.[1][10]
References
- ^ Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Biographies of Candidates". The Times. 26 November 1885. p. 3.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Bruce Vernon-Wentworth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Bruce Vernon-Wentworth". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ "Biographies of Candidates". The Times. 30 June 1886. p. 5.
- ^ "Election Intelligence. Brighton". The Times. 15 December 1893. p. 8.
- ^ "No. 28115". The London Gazette. 8 March 1908. p. 1480.
- ^ "Railway And Other Companies". The Times. 19 January 1899. p. 13.
- ^ "Wills and Bequests". The Times. 15 December 1951. p. 18.
- ^ "Vernon-Wentworth Muniments". Access to Archives. National Archives. Retrieved 8 July 2011.