Percival Pickering

Percival Andree Pickering (8 February 1810 – 7 August 1876) was an English first-class cricketer and lawyer.

Percival Pickering

Personal information
Full name	Percival Andree Pickering
Born	8 February 1810 London, England
Died	7 August 1876(1876-08-07) (aged 66) Dover, Kent, England
Batting	Unknown
Relations	Edward Pickering (brother) William Pickering (brother)
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 3 Batting average 1.50 100s/50s –/– Top score 3 Balls bowled – Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 October 2018

Pickering made a single appearance in first-class cricket in 1846 for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's.^[1] He batted in both Surrey Club innings', being dismissed without scoring by William Hillyer in their first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Jemmy Dean for 3 runs.^[2]

Pickering married Anne Maria Spencer-Stanhope. The couple had four children: the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan,^[3] chemist and horticulturist Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering;^[4] Rowland Neville Umfreville (1861–1931) and the author Anna Pickering. He died at Dover in August 1876. His brother, William, was fundamental in the formation of Surrey County Cricket Club.