Edward Tredcroft
Edward Tredcroft was an English landowner and cricketer from Sussex.
Cricketing career
Active from 1851 to 1865, he played for Sussex. He appeared in 53 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who also bowled slow underarm. He scored 759 runs with a highest score of 44 not out and took 11 wickets with a best performance of three in one innings. His own cricket ground played host to first-class games.Life
Born in the parish of Horsham, he was the elder son of Henry Tredcroft, a Sussex landowner, and his wife Mary Crew, daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew and widow of James Eversfield, After he father's death, when he inherited the family mansion and estate of Warnham Court, his mother married a third time. In 1850 he married Theodosia Sophia Bligh, daughter of Edward Bligh and his wife Sophia Eversfield, daughter of William Markwick, and two of their children reached adulthood: Theodosia Isabella Tredcroft, who in 1870 married Dennis Lambart Higgins and had twelve children, and Henry Edward Tredcroft, who in 1877 married Mabel Lucy Ann Sarah Pigott and had nine children.He died in Westminster and was buried at Horsham, his half-sister Sophia being his executor.