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Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet (27 May 1870 – 27 March 1933) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset and Oxford University. A graceful right-handed batsman, he was selected to play Test cricket for England twice in 1902. Contemporaries judged Palairet to have one of the most attractive batting styles of the period. His obituary in ''The Times'' described him as "the most beautiful batsman of all time".〔The Times, Wednesday, Mar 29, 1933; pg. 6; Issue 46405; col D〕 An unwillingness to tour during the English winter limited Palairet's Test appearances; contemporaries believed he deserved more Test caps. Palairet was educated at Repton School. He played in the school cricket team for four years, as captain in the latter two, before going to Oriel College, Oxford. He achieved his cricketing Blue in each of his four years at Oxford, and captained the side in 1892 and 1893. For Somerset, he frequently opened the batting with Herbie Hewett. In 1892, they shared a partnership of 346 for the first wicket, an opening stand that set a record for the County Championship and remains Somerset's highest first-wicket partnership. In that season, Palairet was named as one of the "Five Batsmen of the Year" by ''Wisden''. Over the following decade, he was one of the leading amateur batsmen in England. He passed 1,000 first-class runs in a season on seven occasions, and struck two double centuries. His highest score, 292 runs against Hampshire in 1895, remained a record for a Somerset batsman until 1948. His only Test matches were the fourth and fifth Tests against Australia in 1902: Australia won the fourth Test by three runs, and England won the fifth Test by one wicket. After 1904, he appeared infrequently for Somerset, though he played a full season in 1907 when he was chosen to captain the county. He retired from first-class cricket in 1909, having scored over 15,000 runs. ==Early life== Lionel Palairet was born in Grange-over-Sands, a popular seaside resort in Lancashire, on 27 May 1870. He was the oldest of five children born to Henry Hamilton Palairet and Elizabeth Anne Bigg. His father, of Huguenot ancestry, was five times archery champion of England, and a keen cricketer who made two first-class appearances for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the late 1860s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Player Profile: Henry Palairet )〕 Palairet was educated first at the Reverend S. Cornish's School in Clevedon, Somerset, where he once took seven wickets in seven successive deliveries, and then at Repton School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Lionel Palairet )〕 At Repton he developed a reputation as an all-round sportsman: he broke the school's running records in the two-mile, mile and half-mile distances, and played cricket in the school's first eleven from 1886 to 1889, captaining the team in his final two years. In 1889, he was adjudged the school's second best sportsman, behind only C. B. Fry. During his final year at Repton, he had a batting average of over 29, and took 56 wickets at an average of under 13.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Batsman of the Year – 1893: Lionel Palairet )〕 Some of Palairet's early success can be attributed to his father, who paid the professionals Frederick Martin and William Attewell, both later ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year, to bowl at his two sons during the Easter holidays, to help them prepare for the upcoming cricket season.〔 During the later part of the 1889 season, Palairet made his first appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Lionel Palairet (45) )〕 At the time, Somerset were a second-class county, and their fixture list that summer was against a variety of first- and second-class opposition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Other matches in England 1889 )〕 Although a Lancastrian by birth, Palairet's family home was at Cattistock in Dorset, and it was in the south west that he chose to play his cricket. On completion of his studies at Repton, he attended Oriel College, Oxford.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lionel Palairet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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