Sylvester Sturgeon
Sylvester Murley Sturgeon (12 August 1886 — 1 May 1930) was an English first-class cricketer of Scottish-descent. Sturgeon was born at Stoke Newington in August 1886. A club cricketer for Carlton, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Scotland against Surrey at The Oval on Scotland's 1922 tour of England, and against Wales at Perth in 1923. Playing as a wicket-keeper in the Scottish side, the took five catches and made a single stumping. Sturgeon later became commercial traveller based in Redland, Bristol. He was summoned before Nailsworth Police Court in October 1929, having been found drunk while in charge of a motor vehicle, having reversed his car through a shop window; he was subsequently fined £3 plus £2 costs, and banned from driving for 12 months. Sturgeon died the following year, in May 1930 at the Boston Hotel in Chester. References

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1886 births
1930 deaths
English people of Scottish descent
People from Stoke Newington
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hackney
English cricketers
Scotland cricketers