William Howard Vincent "Hopper" Levett (25 January 1908 – 30 November 1995) 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 striki ...
er who played as a
wicket-keeper for
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
between 1930 and 1947.
Levett was born at
Goudhurst in
Kent and educated at
Brighton College. He played in one
Test match in 1934. He was a gentleman farmer from an old Kentish family that owned hop farms. He died at
Hastings in
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
.
[Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939'', pp. 105–109.]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
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1908 births
1995 deaths
England Test cricketers
English cricketers
Kent cricketers
English farmers
People from Goudhurst
People educated at Brighton College
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Minor Counties cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
North v South cricketers
Presidents of Kent County Cricket Club
English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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