Arthur Povey (16 May 1886 – 13 February 1946) was an English

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er. Born in

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, Povey moved to Kent and appeared in five

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for Kent County Cricket Club as a

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in 1921 and 1922. However, he could not secure a place in the first-team owing to the presence of Jack Hubble, and later

Les Ames Leslie Ethelbert George Ames (3 December 1905 – 27 February 1990) was a wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary, ''Wisden'' described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of ...

. He was released after the 1924 season.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939'', pp. 132–133.
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. Retrieved 2020-07-01.) Povey committed suicide at his home in

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated populat ...

in 1946.Carlaw, Derek (2005) Leslie Ames, ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2005'', p. 73. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club. .

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