Charles Davy

Charles Vinicombe Butler Davy (24 October 1869 – 10 September 1931) was an Indian-born English amateur cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Davy was born in Mercara in British India in 1869 and died in Vancouver in Canada in 1931 aged 61.[1][2]

Davy was educated at Cheltenham College and played in the school First XI in 1888 as well as for a Public Schools team. He made two appearances for the Gentlemen of Kent in 1892 either side of his only first-class cricket match against Middlesex in the 1892 County Championship at Rectory Field, Blackheath.[3] He scored a total of 35 first-class runs and took one wicket.[3] Davy played in one further known cricket match, for Bangkok against Singapore in 1909.[3]

References
  1. Charles Davy, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 136. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. Charles Davy, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-05-20. (subscription required)
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