Matthew Kailey Fosh (born 26 September 1957) is an English former first-class cricketer who played 30 games for

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and

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between 1976 and 1978. A left-handed batsman tipped for high honours in his youth, Fosh decided against taking up a career in the county game. Following his career in cricket, Fosh became a financier in the

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Early life and education

Fosh is the son of Arthur Fosh, of Egg Hall,

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, an Old Harrovian who also studied at

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and was owner of

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printing company Fosh & Cross, on

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, on the edge of the

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. Fosh was educated at

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, where he played in a band called Toyd, two members of which later found success in the 1980s as Red Box. Fosh is a trustee of the Harrow Development Trust, dedicated to improving the school including through financial donations. He then went up to

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, where he took a BA in 1979.

Cricket and rugby

Fosh played cricket at school, including as captain; in 2017, he still held "the highest score since the First World War... 161 not out" in the

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match, which was first played in 1805. His son, Max, also played cricket for Harrow. He got a double blue (representing participation in sport at the highest level) at Cambridge for cricket and

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. Fosh scored 1069 runs at 23.33 with one century, 109 for Cambridge against Derbyshire, and six fifties. In 14 list A one-day matches he scored 307 runs at 21.92 with a best of 45. He toured the

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with the England Young Cricketers in 1976 and played in one 'test match' in Trinidad alongside

Mike Gatting Michael William Gatting (born 6 June 1957) is an English former cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex (1975–1998; captain 1983–1997) and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test mat ...

and David Gower, scoring 41 in the first innings of a game won by England by 22 runs. He represented

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at rugby union in the 1978 and 1979 Varsity Matches.

Business career

After Cambridge, Fosh travelled for 18 months, then went to work in London in financial public relations and private client fund management for stockbrokers Strauss Turnbull and Carr Sheppards. He founded futures and options broker SGF with a school friend, selling it in 2000 for a seven-figure sum; he left in 2002 and went to work at

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insurer SVB Holdings, where he became chief executive. He is currently chief executive officer at

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Personal life

Fosh was married to Dutch advertising and financial public relations executive Helena, daughter of diplomat Joost van der Kun and his wife Adrienne, daughter of

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Thomas Theodore Flugi van Aspermont, vice-consul at

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. The couple have two children: daughter Talitha (Tally), and son Maximilian (Max), a

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and

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candidate in the

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. Helena Fosh subsequently married Sir John Auld Mactaggart, 4th Baronet.The Diplomatic Year Book, Funk & Wagnall, 1951, p. 444

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fosh, Matthew Living people 1957 births Essex cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players British Universities cricketers English cricketers People educated at Harrow School