Henry Biron

Henry Brydges Biron (13 June 1835 – 7 April 1915) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent and for amateur teams between 1857 and 1864.^[1] He was born at Lympne, Kent and died at Derringstone, Barham, also in Kent.

The son of the rector of Lympne, Biron was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating (as Henry Brydges) in 1854 and graduating from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1858.^[2] He played in a trial match in 1857 for the University cricket team but did not appear in any first-class matches for the team.^[3] Later that same cricket season he appeared in a county match for Kent for the first time and also played in a game for an amateur side representing the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex that was subsequently judged to have been first-class.^[1] He then played in a total of 20 first-class matches over the next eight years; a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener, his highest innings was 53, made out of a total of just 96, for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1860.^[4] He did not appear in first-class cricket after the 1864 season, though he continued to play in minor amateur matches up to 1869.^[1]

Ordained as a priest in 1860, Biron served as curate at Mersham, Biddenden and Harbledown, all in Kent, before he became, like his father, Rector of Lympne and West Hythe from 1882 to his retirement in 1912.^[2]

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