Horace J. Taylor

Horace James Taylor (26 November 1895 – 13 October 1961) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club.

Horace Taylor
Personal information
Full nameHorace James Taylor
Born(1895-12-26)26 December 1895
Sevenoaks, Kent
Died13 October 1961(1961-10-13) (aged 65)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1922–1925Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 12
Runs scored 181
Batting average 18.10
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 33
Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: CricInfo, 5 December 2015

Taylor was born at Sevenoaks in Kent in 1895.[1] He made his debut in first-class cricket for Kent against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in the 1922 County Championship.[2] He made a total of 12 First XI appearances for Kent, his last coming in 1925 although he continued to play for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship until 1928.

Taylor studied at Wye College, an agricultural college in Kent, and worked in Africa for the Colonial Office during the 1930s, playing some cricket in Kenya and Nigeria before the Second World War.[2][3] He died at Tunbridge Wells in Kent in October 1961 aged 65.[1]

References

  1. Horace Taylor, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. Horace Taylor, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  3. Sunman H (2014) A Very Different Land: Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya. London: The Radcliffe Press.

Horace J. Taylor at ESPNcricinfo

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