J. B. Thompson
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| Full name | James Bogne Thompson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1829 Yorkshire, England |
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| Died | 18 July 1877 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| 1861/62 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only first-class | 9 January 1862 v New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Bogne "J. B." Thompson (1829 – 18 July 1877) was one of the creators of the original laws of Australian rules football, one of the founders and the inaugural secretary of the Melbourne Football Club, a cricketer for Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), and a journalist for Melbourne newspaper, The Argus.
Thompson was born in 1829 in Yorkshire, England. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1845 to 1848, before deciding to travel to the British colony of Victoria, where he ended up living for the remainder of his life.
Thompson was a respected amateur cricketer for the Melbourne Cricket Club and played one first-class match for Victoria, in the 1861–62 season, against New South Wales at the MCG. He batted in just one innings, scoring 16 runs. Victoria went on to win the match by ten wickets.
Thompson played for the Gentlemen of Victoria against the Gentlemen of New South Wales in 1858–59. He batted only in the first innings and scored six runs; he also took a catch while in the field. The match ended in a draw. Future collaborators in the codifying of Australian football's laws, Tom Wills and William Hammersley, also played in the match.
Thompson played twice for Victoria against H. H. Stephenson's XI in 1862. In the first match he scored 17 and a duck and Victoria lost by an innings and 96 runs. In the second match Thompson made 1 and 25 and the match ended in a draw.
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