Joseph McCormick (cricketer)

Joseph McCormick (29 October 1834 at Liverpool – 9 April 1914 at Westminster) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1854 to 1866.

Joseph McCormick was educated at Bingley Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A right-handed batsman and right arm slow roundarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 19 known appearances in first-class matches. He claimed, while playing on Parker's Piece, to have hit a fast bowler to leg and run nine runs for it. In 1856, the year he captained Cambridge University at cricket, he was also a rowing blue. He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series.

After Cambridge, he studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, gaining a BD (Bachelor of Divinity) and a DD (Doctor of Divinity) He was Ordained Deacon of London 1858 and Priest 1859

He was made Rector of St James, Piccadilly, London (1900-1914) where an outside pulpit was erected by Friends in 1904; Canon of York Cathedral from 1884 to 1901, and Hon. Chaplain to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V.

He published a collection of sermons entitled "What is Sin?" and a book: “Why I Am Not a Roman Catholic”. He died at St James Rectory on 9 April 1914

McCormick married Francis Harriet Haines on 20 April 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Lieut-Col. Gregory Haines & Jane Elizabeth Mona Gough, dau of Ist Viscount Gough

Both of their sons, Pat and Gough, were clergyman, Gough became Dean of Manchester and Pat also achieved notoriety as a sportsman.

There is a memorial to Joseph McCormick in St James's Church, Piccadilly.