Henry Keigwin

Henry David Keigwin (14 May 1881 — 20 September 1916) was an English cricketer. He was born in Lexden, in Colchester and died near Thiepval, France. He was educated at Clifton College,[1] along with his brothers R. P. Keigwin and Herbert Keigwin

Keigwin, whose brothers R. P. Keigwin and Herbert Keigwin also played first-class cricket, played for Essex and Scotland in his three years of first-class cricket between 1906 and 1909. He scored 77 and 27 for the Gentlemen of England against Surrey in April 1906, W.G. Grace's final first-class appearance. He returned from Africa to serve with the Lancashire Fusiliers at the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War and died on the Western Front.[2]

Other teams
  • Gentlemen of England (1905–1908)
  • Miscellaneous Scotland (1906)
  • Scottish Counties (1910)

References
  1. "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p213: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  2. "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.


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