Thomas Calhoun

Thomas Gunston Calhoun (1795 – 6 September 1861) was an English clergyman who played a single first-class cricket match for a Kent XI in 1827.

Thomas Calhoun

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Gunston Calhoun
Born	1795 Chichester, Sussex
Died	6 September 1861 (aged 65–66) Goring-by-Sea, Sussex
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1827	Kent XI
Only FC	17 September 1827 Kent XI v Sussex XI
Source: CricInfo, 10 July 2022

Calhoun was at Chichester in Sussex in 1795, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Calhoun. His father was a "substantial" landowner from the Southampton area of Hampshire and Calhoun was educated at the University of Oxford.^[1][2] He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1813 and graduated from Magdalen College in 1817.^[2] After graduating, he entered the Church of England, serving as curate at Ferring near Brighton in 1827 and was later vicar of Goring-by-Sea and Upper Beeding.^[1][2] He was elected as a Fellow of Magdalen.^[3]

Calhoun made a single first-class appearance for a Kent side in 1827, playing against a Sussex XI at the Royal New Ground at Brighton.^[4] This is the only cricket match he is known to have played in and he was probably a late replacement for a missing player in the match.^[1] He scored a single run in the two innings in which he batted.^[5]

Calhoun died at Goring-by-Sea in 1861.^[5]