Herbert Blagrave

Herbert Blagrave (3 March 1899 – 4 July 1981) was an English cricketer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Cheltenham and died in Wiltshire.

Blagrave made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1922 season, against Derbyshire. From the lower order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 12 runs in the second.

Later in life Blagrave had some success as an owner and trainer of racehorses, sending out Private Walk to win consecutive editions of the Old Newton Cup.[1] He was also the president of Southampton Football Club.[2]

In 1964 he bought the manor of Linkenholt in Hampshire. He died without an heir, so he founded the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust, with orders that the money should be spent on sick children, the elderly and injured jockeys.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Timeform staff (1974). Racehorses of 1973. Timeform.
  2. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/news/4952810/Whole-village-put-up-for-sale-for-22-million.html
  3. ↑ "Middle England for sale: Forget the credit crunch, if you've got £25m to spare, this picture postcard village could be yours".
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