Villiers Smith

Who was Villiers Smith?

Villiers Shallet Charnock Smith was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1844 to 1849.

A right-handed batsman who was mainly associated with Oxford University and Marylebone Cricket Club, he made 14 known appearances in first-class matches.

Smith's two middle names appear in some records with different spellings: the Bedfordshire County Council archives, which record his ownership of Aspley House in Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, in the two years before his death have his names as "Villiers Shallot Chernocke Smith". On his election as "Actual Fellow" at New College, Oxford from Winchester College in 1843, The Times reported his name as "Villiers Chernocke Smith". A notice in The Times in 1869 in which he is cited as an executor in a will mentions him as "the Reverend Villiers Shallet Chernocke Smith, of Crawley Vicarage, near Woburn, in the county of Bedford".