Kanwar Singh
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Lieutenant Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh (21 June 1879 – 12 May 1975) was an Indian military doctor and cricketer.[1]
Born in Bahraich, Singh attended Rugby School, where he made appearances for the school cricket eleven during 1896.[2] Proceeding to Pembroke College, Cambridge,[3] he had a trial in 1901 with Cambridge University's cricket team, and played a solitary match for them against Surrey.[4] He also played in four first-class matches for Kent.[5]
He was noted as a batsman with a "strong defence" and a fine fielder.[2]
After Cambridge he trained as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and qualified in 1905. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in 1906, being steadily promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1926.[6] He retired in 1934.[7]
At the time of his death in New Delhi, he was the oldest surviving Kent cricketer.[2]
References
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- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 491–492. (Available online at The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
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- ↑ Kent's first overseas player, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ↑ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930
- ↑ Indian Army Supplement January 1941
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