Harry Keeling (cricketer)

Not to be confused with Harry Keeling (footballer).

Harry Walter Keeling (8 November 1873 – 19 February 1898) was an English cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1893.[1]

Keeling was the son of a curate and was born at Hove in Sussex, one of eight children. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint College. He played cricket for his school and club cricket for Plaistow and Bickley Park Cricket Clubs.[2] Both of his first-class matches were against Gloucestershire in the 1893 County Championship.

Keeling worked as a stockbroker in London. He died from lung cancer at Marylebone in London in February 1898 aged 24.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b Harry Keeling, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-02-26. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p.302. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. ^ Harry Keeling, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
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