John Cowley (cricketer)
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Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England
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| Full name | John Norman Cowley | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1885 Marylebone, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 August 1957 (aged 72) Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Robert Broughton (grandfather) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1908–1911 | Hertfordshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 December 2018 | |||||||||||||||
John Norman Cowley (7 February 1885 – 5 August 1957) was an English first-class cricketer.
Born in Marylebone, he was the grandson of first-class cricketer Robert Broughton. Cowley made his debut in minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire against Cambridgeshire at Fenner's in 1908.[1] He played infrequently for Hertfordshire up until 1911, making a total of five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[1] He appeared in a first-class cricket match for the Free Foresters against Oxford University at Oxford in 1914.[2] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by John Heathcoat-Amory in the Free Foresters first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Orme Bristowe for the same score.[3] He served in the London Regiment during World War I, initially as a private before promotion to lieutenant in February 1915.[4] He died in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire in August 1957.