Peter Stewart (cricketer)

This article is about the cricketer. For the film director, see Peter Stewart (director).

Peter "Buck" Stewart (1730 – 1796) was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s.

Known to have been nicknamed "Buck" because he was a "natty dresser", Peter Stewart was also a considerable player but one of many whose best years were before 1772 and whose records are mostly lost.

He seems to have had several trades. We know he was variously a carpenter, a shoemaker and an innkeeper. He is said to have been one of the team’s characters and a noted humorist. He was a good batsman in his prime and strong in his offside strokes.

Stewart was also a tough and courageous player for one game against Chertsey in 1764 he played on with a knee strain and a broken finger. We know another Hambledon player in the game was injured and so were three Chertsey players. H T Waghorn’s source (see WDC) says they were all "much hurt".

References

• Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
• Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
• Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
• The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
• The Glory Days of Cricket by Ashley Mote (GDC)
• John Nyren's "The Cricketers of my Time" by Ashley Mote