Charles Filgate

Charles Roden Filgate (16 October 1849 (Lissrenny, Ardee, County Louth, Ireland) – 1 September 1930 (Grove House, Pinner, Middlesex, England)) was an Irish amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1869 to 1877 for Gloucestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), where he was a member. Filgate represented Ireland in three matches between 1868 and 1871. He was a right-handed batsman (RHB) who made 25 first-class career appearances. He scored 563 runs with a highest score of 93 and held 18 catches.[1]

Filgate was the sixth and youngest son of William Filgate of Lissrenny (1781-1875), J.P., by his wife Sophia Juliana Penelope (1807-1866), eldest daughter of the Count De Salis. He married Clare, daughter of William Cooper, on 27 February 1906. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Inner Temple (1869), and was called to the Bar in 1872, and became a member of the Oxford Circuit. A practising Barrister-at-Law, he lived for sometime at The Terrace, Matlock Bank, Derbyshire, England, and had two children:

  • William Alexander Jerome Filgate (12 Apr 1908-)
  • Margaret Penelope Filgate (21 Jan 1910-)[2]

Some of his family
  • His father, William Filgate (1781-1875) of Lissrenny, JP counties Louth and Monaghan, High Sheriff co. Louth, 1832, and Treasurer of the (Louth) Grand Jury, 1854–69.[3]
  • His father.
  • Mother
  • His father on a horse, Lissrenny, circa 1870.
  • His sister, Anne Harriet Penelope Eleanor Filgate (1832-1917), married, 1857, Thomas William Filgate, JP, of Tullykeel (d.1868).
  • A niece: Violet Evelyn Sophia Filgate (1871-1912), elder daughter of William de Salis Filgate (1834-1916), MFH, of Lisrenny, Ardee.
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References
  1. CricketArchive. Retrieved on 1 December 2010.
  2. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd (editor), Burke's Irish Family Records, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, London, page 414.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2014-05-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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