James Fellowes (cricketer)

Colonel James Fellowes FRAS (21 August 1841 – 3 May 1916) was an English soldier and amateur cricketer. Fellowes served in the Royal Engineers and played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Hampshire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed who bowled right-arm fast roundarm.

James Fellowes
Grave of James Fellowes in the churchyard at Hale, Surrey
Personal information
Full name
James Fellowes
Born(1841-08-24)24 August 1841
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Died3 May 1916(1916-05-03) (aged 74)
Castle House, Dedham, Essex, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
RelationsCoote Hedley (son-in-law)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1873–1881Kent
1883–1885Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 23
Runs scored 432
Batting average 12.34
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 32
Balls bowled 2,708
Wickets 60
Bowling average 18.96
5 wickets in innings 4
10 wickets in match 1
Best bowling 7/24
Catches/stumpings 23/–
Source: CricInfo, 7 January 2009

Military career

Fellowes was born in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in 1841.[1] He joined the Royal Engineers and was commissioned in the Corps. He reached the rank of Colonel[2] and served as Assistant-Commandant of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham in Kent. In 1890 Fellowes retired from the army on half-pay.[3]

Cricket career

Fellowes first played cricket for the Royal Engineers Cricket Club in 1868 and joined the MCC in 1869.[3] He made his first-class cricket debut for MCC against Cambridge University in 1870.[4]

Fellowes made his county cricket debut for Kent County Cricket Club in 1873. He played nine first-class matches for Kent up until 1881 before going on to play eleven times for Hampshire County Cricket Club between 1883 and 1885.[2][4][5] In his first-class career Fellowes took a total of 60 wickets at an average of 18.96, including taking 13/100 for Kent against Lancashire in 1874.[2][4] He was described in Scores and Biographies as "a very hard hitter, and a fast round-armed bowler" who could field at "any place with effect".[6]

The majority of his non-first-class games for the Royal Engineers, making over 50 appearances for the Corps. He made appearances for a number of other teams, including Devon County Cricket Club and the Army team.[2][4] Fellowes was the co-secretary of Hampshire between 1883 and 1886 and was involved in founding the Hampshire Hogs and Devon Dumplings clubs.[2][3]

Later life

He was employed by the Ordnance Survey in Southampton and in March 1883 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[7] His daughter Anna, married Walter Coote Hedley who also served in the Royal Engineers and later joined the Ordnance Survey.[8] Fellowes died in Castle House in Dedham, Essex on 3 May 1916 aged 74.[1] He is buried in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist at Hale, Surrey.

References
  1. James Fellowes, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  2. Col. James Fellowes, Other deaths in 1916, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1917. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  3. Ambrose D (2003) Brief profile of James Fellowes, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-06-15 (subscription required).
  4. James Fellowes, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-06-19. (subscription required)
  5. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 168–169. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  6. Quoted in Fellowes' Wisden obituary, Wisden Op. cit.
  7. Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomical register, vol. 21, pp. 75–82, 9 March 1883. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  8. Lewis P (2013) For Kent and Country, pp. 203–206. Brighton: Reveille Press.

James Fellowes at ESPNcricinfo

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