Hugh Tapsfield
Hugh Alexander Tapsfield (31 January 1870 – 3 March 1945) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1892. He was born at Windsor Castle, Berkshire and died at Weybridge, Surrey. Cricket career The son of a minor canon at Windsor Castle who was later the vicar of Nether Stowey in Somerset, Hugh Tapsfield was educated at Bradfield College and at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He played cricket primarily as an opening bowler and lower-order batsman and featured in trial matches for Oxford University in 1889, 1891 and 1892; despite taking wickets in all of these matches, he did not play first-class cricket for the full Oxford side. His only first-class cricket appearance was, in fact, for Somerset against Oxford in 1892; Tapsfield batted in the lower order, scored 0 and 1 and was not called upon to bowl. As a student he was also involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in a production of The Frogs that was reviewed in The Times. Clerical career After graduating, Tapsfield became a clergyman in the Church of England. In 1895, he was appointed a deacon at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. By 1902, he was a minor canon at St Paul's Cathedral, London when he gave