Charles Norman (cricketer)

Charles Loyd Norman (10 March 1833 – 17 February 1889) was an English banker and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Kent, the Marylebone Cricket Club and other amateur teams in the 1850s. He was born at Bromley Common, Kent and died at San Remo in Italy.

A member of the Norman family which has been prominent in British banking and business for nearly 200 years, Charles Norman was the eldest son of George Warde Norman, a director of the Bank of England. Charles' younger brother was Frederick Norman, a leading merchant banker of Victorian times, and Frederick's son was Montagu Norman who became Governor of the Bank of England. There were family connections too in politics and public life: Ronald Collet Norman, chairman of London County Council and of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Maurice Bonham Carter, H. H. Asquith's Principal Private Secretary, were nephews. Many of the family also played first-class cricket, including Charles Norman's father, his brothers Frederick and Philip, and Maurice Bonham Carter.