John Drewett [SEP] occupation
John Drewett
John Drewett was an English cricketer. He was a wicket-keeper who played for Berkshire.
Drewett, who represented the team in the Minor Counties Championship between 1961 and 1965, made his only List A appearance in his final year at the club, in the 1965 Gillette Cup against Somerset. From the upper-middle order, Drewett scored a single run.
External links.
- John Drewett at Cricket Archive
at St James Church, Manchester. his parents being John and Jenny HIGTON. John was a cotton spinner (which does seem an unlikely occupation for the father of a Cambridge Alumnus) (source: St James, Manchester parish registers).
William Nichols HIGTON, the son of John and Mary HIGTON, was born on 30 Sep 1798, and baptised on 17 Aug 1810 at St Mary's church, Newington, London (ref: St Mary's church, Newington parish registers). There does not appear to be