__NOTOC__ Herbert Jenner (23 February 1806 – 30 July 1904) was an English barrister. As an amateur

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er he played

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from 1825 to 1838. He changed his name to Herbert Jenner-Fust in 1864.Herbet Jenner
CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 November 2008. Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 295–296.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 16 August 2022.)

Life

Herbert Jenner was the eldest son of the judge Herbert Jenner-Fust, Dean of the Arches. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

, where he was first noted as a schoolboy cricketer playing against

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in 1822, and

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. In 1827, he captained

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in the inaugural

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.The oldest living cricketer
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'', 1898. Retrieved at

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, 8 June 2022. Jenner entered

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, and was

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in 1831. He became an advocate of Doctors' Commons in 1835.

Cricket career

Jenner was an

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who was right-handed as both batsman and bowler. He was an underarm bowler but his pace is unknown. He kept wicket when not bowling and is said to have been one of the "finest amateur wicketkeepers".Altham, p.68-69. In the 1820s, Jenner did not wear gloves or pads while keeping wicket.Birley, p.78. These protections were gradually introduced in response to the development of

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from 1827. Until then, the role of the wicketkeeper had been "offensive" rather than "defensive" in that he was primarily concerned with looking for stumping chances, but the increased pace of roundarm forced wicketkeepers to improve their ability to stop the ball and so prevent

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. By 1836, the Kent wicketkeeper

Ned Wenman Edward Gower "Ned" Wenman (18 August 1803 – 28 December 1879) was an English first-class cricketer whose career spanned the 1825 to 1854 seasons. A specialist wicket-keeper, he was a prominent member of the great Kent team of the 1840s which a ...

was using gloves but it is not known if Jenner himself adopted them in the latter part of his career. In

, he was associated with Cambridge University, Kent XIs and MCC. He played for several predominantly amateur teams including the Gentlemen in the

Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...

series. Jenner made 36 known appearances in first-class matches from 1825 to 1838. He scored 842 runs with a highest score of 75. He is credited with 75 wickets, including a best performance of seven wickets in an innings; he took five wickets in an innings on at least five occasions. As a wicket-keeper, he took 24 catches and made 17 stumpings.

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