John Edmund Valentine Jewell (31 January 1891 - 17 April 1966) was a
cricketer
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who played 27 times for
Orange Free State (and once for
PW Sherwell's XI) between 1910–11 and 1925–26. He also played a handful of times for
Surrey
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's Second XI. In
first-class cricket he scored 1,485 runs
at 28.55, with a top score of 168 in 1920–21; and took 19 wickets
at 32.26, with best innings figures of 5–56 achieved in 1922–23.
Jewell was born in
Bexley,
Kent, but spent most of his life in
South Africa and died at
Knysna,
Cape Province at the age of 75.
He was the brother of
Worcestershire captain
Maurice Jewell
Maurice Frederick Stewart Jewell, CBE (15 September 1885 – 28 May 1978) was a Chilean-born English first-class cricketer: a right-handed batsman and slow left arm bowler who played the bulk of his cricket for Worcestershire between the wars.
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, while another brother (
Arthur) played for both Orange Free State and Worcestershire. John's son, also
John, played twice for Worcestershire in 1939.
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South African cricketers
Free State cricketers
1891 births
1966 deaths
People from Bexley
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Bexley
English emigrants to South Africa
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