Thomas Wickham


Thomas Provis Wickham, probably best known as an English cricketer.

Personal life

Wickham was the son of the reverend William Wickham and Margaret Provis, and brother of the reverend William Provis Trelawney Wickham. He had two sisters, Annabella and Caroline.
According to Bernard Burke the Wickhams were an ancient Somerset family, belonging to the landed gentry.
In 1835 he married Sarah Hussey.
Little is known about him other than that he was a "gentleman". It is suggested that he spent some time in a debtors' prison.

Cricket

Wickham made his first-class debut and his only appearance for Hampshire against an All-England Eleven in 1850.
In 1851, Wickham made his last first class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University.