John Gude Wenman (11 August 1803 at

Benenden Benenden is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish is located on the Weald, to the west of Tenterden. In addition to the main village, Iden Green, East End, Dingleden and Standen Street settlem ...

, Kent – 25 November 1877 at

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, Surrey) was an English professional

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

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from 1825 to 1838. He was a cousin of

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 ...

. He played for

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and made nine known appearances in first-class matches.John Wenman
CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 December 2008. He represented the Players in the

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series and the

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in the

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series.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 567–568.
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at the

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. Retrieved 16 August 2022.)

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1803 births 1877 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Players cricketers Kent cricketers North v South cricketers Left-Handed v Right-Handed cricketers People from Benenden {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub