Sylvester Sturgeon

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Sylvester Murley Sturgeon (12 August 1886 – 1 May 1930) was an English cricketer who played for Scotland. Born in Stoke Newington, London, he had Scottish ancestry and played club cricket for Carlton. He appeared in two first-class matches for Scotland during their 1922 tour of England, against Surrey at The Oval and against Wales at Perth in 1923. He was a wicket-keeper, taking five catches and making one stumping, and he scored 1 run in his two games (batting average 0.33). He later worked as a commercial traveller from Redland, Bristol. In October 1929 he was summoned to Nailsworth Police Court after being found drunk while driving and reversing his car into a shop window; he was fined and banned from driving for 12 months. He died in May 1930 at the Boston Hotel in Chester, aged 43.