The noted Hampshire cricketer Daniel Day was born in Streatham, On This Day 14 June 1807, the seventh son of a builder/ carpenter who died when Daniel was a baby.
Daniel is recorded living at "The Rookery" and was baptised at St Leonard's Church on 19th July 1807
He learned his cricket on the local common and at a school where his fellows included Alfred Mynn, the future ‘Lion of Kent’.
In his teens he was engaged by the Lord's groundsman, Cobbett, as a practice bowler and went on to play for several leading Surrey clubs, notably the Camberwell Clarence side, through which he became friendly with the celebrated Nicholas Felix, a cricketing schoolmaster of many talents, whose innovations included a ‘Catapulta’ bowling machine and items of protective gear.
(Source Sotonopedia)
Day patented a protective cricket glove with Mr Wilson at the India Rubber Company in Streatham.
Daniel is recorded living at "The Rookery" and was baptised at St Leonard's Church on 19th July 1807
He learned his cricket on the local common and at a school where his fellows included Alfred Mynn, the future ‘Lion of Kent’.
In his teens he was engaged by the Lord's groundsman, Cobbett, as a practice bowler and went on to play for several leading Surrey clubs, notably the Camberwell Clarence side, through which he became friendly with the celebrated Nicholas Felix, a cricketing schoolmaster of many talents, whose innovations included a ‘Catapulta’ bowling machine and items of protective gear.
(Source Sotonopedia)
Day patented a protective cricket glove with Mr Wilson at the India Rubber Company in Streatham.
