Charles Filgate

Charles Roden Filgate (16 October 1849 – 1 September 1930) 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 who made 25 first-class career appearances. He scored 563 runs with a highest score of 93 and held 18 catches.^[1]

Charles Filgate

Personal information
Full name	Charles Roden Filgate
Born	16 October 1849 Ardee, Ireland
Died	1 September 1930(1930-09-01) (aged 80) Pinner, Middlesex, England
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1869–1873	Marylebone Cricket Club
1870–1877	Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 25 Runs scored 563 Batting average 15.63 100s/50s 0/2 Top score 93 Catches/stumpings 18/–
Source: Cricinfo, 28 October 2021

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). In 1872, he was called to the Bar and became a member of the Oxford Circuit. A practising Barrister-at-Law, he lived for some time 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

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  His father, William Filgate (1781-1875) of Lissrenny, JP counties Louth and Monaghan, High Sheriff County Louth, 1832, and Treasurer of the (Louth) Grand Jury, 1854–69.^[3]
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  His father.
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  Mother
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  His father on a horse, Lissrenny, circa 1870.
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  His sister, Anne Harriet Penelope Eleanor Filgate (1832-1917), married, 1857, Thomas William Filgate, JP, of Tullykeel (d.1868).
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  A niece: Violet Evelyn Sophia Filgate (1871-1912), elder daughter of William de Salis Filgate (1834-1916), MFH, of Lisrenny, Ardee.