James Turner Welldon (3 August 1847 – 6 February 1927) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er active 1867 to 1869 who played for

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

and

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. He was born in

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated populat ...

; died in Ashford, Kent.James Welldon at CricketArchive
/ref>Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), p. 561.
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)

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1847 births 1927 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1840s-stub