Humphrey Forman (26 April 1888 – 21 May 1923) played

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in two matches, one each for

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and

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in the 1910 cricket season. He was born at

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and died at

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. Humphrey Forman was the son of

Arthur Forman Arthur Francis Emilius Forman (26 July 1850 – 13 February 1905) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1877 and 1882. Forman was the son of Richard Forman of Gibraltar and his wife Mary Heath, daughter of ...

, a master at

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and himself a first-class cricketer for

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. Humphrey was educated at

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. As a first-class cricketer, he was a lower-order batsman and a left-arm medium-pace bowler. He was quite successful as a bowler in his one first-class match at Cambridge University, taking four

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wickets for 62 runs, more wickets than any other Cambridge bowler. He played a second match for Cambridge a week later against the

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; this match was not classed as first-class (though many such fixtures between these teams were in other years), but in any case Forman was not successful. In his solitary match for Somerset later in the same season, he opened the bowling but took only one wicket in the match.

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