James Traill (cricketer)
James Christie Traill was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of James Traill senior, he was born in 1826 at Walworth, Surrey. He later studied at St John's College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1848. The following year he made two further first-class appearances for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's and Canterbury in 1849. Traill scored 19 runs in his three first-class matches, in addition to taking 4 wickets.
A student of the Inner Temple, Traill was called to the bar in January 1853. He was appointed to be a deputy lieutenant of Caithness in April 1875, in addition to serving as a justice of the peace for the county. Traill died at Fulham in February 1899. His brothers, George and William, also played first-class cricket, as did his brother-in-law William Hartopp.
