Thomas Ingram was an English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er of the late 18th century. He was a left-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.

According to Scores and Biographies, Ingram was for a time a victualler at Cobham in Surrey. His career began with Surrey

Surrey county cricket teams

Surrey county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. The first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford.-17th century:...

 but from the 1791 season

1791 English cricket season

In the 1791 English cricket season, the emergence of the Brighton club heralded a brief revival of Sussex cricket which had been prominent during the early 18th century. As with Hornchurch Cricket Club and Essex, the Brighton team was a fair representation of Sussex as a county and the county name...

 he played for Essex

Essex county cricket teams

Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being...

 having apparently joined the famous Hornchurch Cricket Club

Hornchurch Cricket Club

Hornchurch Cricket Club is based in Hornchurch, Essex and was established in 1783. The club had several good players and for the next ten years it was representative of Essex as a county, the club's name sometimes being interchangeable with that of the county in first-class scorecards.Essex...

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Ingram's best performance as a keeper was in the Kent v Essex match at Dartford Brent

Dartford Brent

Dartford Brent was an extensive area of common land on the outskirts of Dartford in Kent. In history, it was the scene of a confrontation between King Henry VI and Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in 1452; and in 1555 thousands of spectators were to witness the burning to death at the stake of...

in August 1792 when he took five catches and made three stumpings for Essex. But to no avail as Kent won by 81 runs!

Thomas Ingram made 24 known appearances in major matches between 1787 and 1798.