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Henry Thomas Coventry (3 May 1868 – 2 August 1934) was an English first-class

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er. The son of

George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, (9 May 1838 – 13 March 1930), styled Viscount Deerhurst from November 1838 until 1843, was a British Conservative politician. He was Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1877 and 1880 and again ...

he was born at

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in May 1868. He was educated at Eton College, where he played for the cricket eleven, in addition to representing the college at rackets. From Eton he went up to

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. Coventry played two first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1888 while he was still studying at Oxford, playing twice against Oxford University at Oxford and

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. Described by '' Wisden'' as a "hard-hitting batsman", he scored 28 runs in his two matches with a highest score of 15. He also took a single wicket with his right-arm slow bowling. The Coventry family was associated with Worcestershire County Cricket Club in its early years, with Coventry playing minor matches for Worcestershire between 1886 and 1894, when the team was still regarded as a second-class county. Outside of cricket, he was a member of the

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. He died at his Westminster home in August 1934.Obituary. '' Aberdeen Press and Journal''. 3 August 1934. p. 7 His brother,

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, played Test cricket for England, while his nephew John Coventry was also a first-class cricketer.

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