Challen Skeet

Challen Hasler Lufkin Skeet (17 August 1895 – 20 April 1978) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and Oxford University between 1919 and 1922.[1]

Challen Skeet at Oxford

Skeet was born in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand.[2] His family moved to England when he was a boy and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Merton College, Oxford. He served as a second lieutenant in the 12th Royal Fusiliers during World War I and was taken prisoner during the Battle of Loos in September 1915.[3]

Skeet was "a solid bat rather than a stroke player" but was "one of the great fieldsmen of his time".[4] In the last match of the 1920 season he played an innings for Middlesex that helped them win the County Championship: against Surrey at Lord's they were 73 behind on the first innings but Skeet (who scored 106, his only first-class century) and Harry Lee opened the second innings with a partnership of 208, and Middlesex went on to win.[4]

He served the British government in Sudan for many years as a District Commissioner.[4][5] He married Aileen Grace Rand in London in 1926.[6] He died in West Tytherley, Hampshire.[2]

References
  1. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 121.
  2. Challen Skeet at CricketArchive
  3. "The Fight at Loos: New Zealander Captured". Otago Daily Times: 4. 16 December 1915.
  4. "Obituary, 1978", Wisden 1979, pp. 1086–87.
  5. Anderson, Casper (2017). The Government and Administration of Africa, 1880-1939 Vol 1. London: Routledge. p. 107.
  6. "London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932". Ancestry. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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