Ivo Bligh
English cricketer
Died when: 68 years 28 days (816 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley JP DL (13 March 1859 – 10 April 1927), styled The Honourable Ivo Bligh until 1900, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British nobleman, parliamentarian and cricketer.
Bligh captained the England team in the first ever Test cricket series against Australia with The Ashes at stake in 1882/83.
Later in life, he inherited the earldom of Darnley and sat at Westminster as an elected Irish representative peer.
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