Algernon James Bullock Marsham (14 August 1919 – 11 February 2004) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er. Marsham played in 17

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matches between 1939 and 1947 as a left-handed

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and a right arm leg break bowler. He was the last member of the famous Marsham family, which included his father

C. H. B. Marsham Cloudesley Henry Bullock Marsham (10 February 1879 – 19 July 1928), also known as Slug Marsham, was an English amateur cricketer. Primarily a batsman, he played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1900 and 1922 and is most notable for having ...

and grandfather C. D. B. Marsham, to play cricket for Kent. Marsham was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. During

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he was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was for some time a prisoner of war in Germany.

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* 1919 births 2004 deaths Kent cricketers Oxford University cricketers Combined Services cricketers English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford King's Royal Rifle Corps officers British Army personnel of World War II {{England-cricket-bio-1910s-stub