Harold Swift Kaye (9 May 1882 – 6 November 1953) was an English
first-class cricketer, who played eighteen matches for
Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1907 and 1908.
He also appeared for in one first-class game for the
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1908, and two for
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI in 1909 and 1910. He reappeared for the MCC in a non first-class game in 1922.
Born in
Mirfield,
Yorkshire,
England, Kaye was a right-handed batsman, who scored 262 runs at an average of 9.70, with a best score of 37 for Yorkshire against the MCC in his second match, at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
, in 1907. He took nine catches, and bowled one maiden over, for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI, without success.
Following service in
World War I, Kaye was a
lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...
,
DSO,
MC. He played for the Yorkshire Gentlemen for many years, and later became a member of the Yorkshire Cricket Committee. He was chairman of Marshall, Kaye and Marshall, a firm of woollen manufacturers based in
Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places.
England
*Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
**Ravensthorpe railway station, Dewsbury
*Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire
*Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire
*Ravensthorpe, an histor ...
.
Kaye died in November 1953 in St John's,
Wakefield, Yorkshire.
His son, Michael Kaye, played seventeen matches for
Cambridge University in 1937 and 1938.
References
External links
Cricinfo Profile
1882 births
1953 deaths
Yorkshire cricketers
Sportspeople from Mirfield
Cricketers from West Yorkshire
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
English cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Recipients of the Military Cross
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
British Army personnel of World War I
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