Patrick Lindsay Barrow (22 January 1893 – 7 May 1974) was an English
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. He was a left-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for
Essex
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in the 1922 season. He was born in
Plaistow and died in
Adstock
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.
Barrow had previously played four Minor Counties Championship matches for Dorset between 1913 and 1920, but got his only opportunity for first-class cricket in the 1922 season, playing against the Combined Services. From the lower order, Barrow scored a duck in the first innings, and took just one wicket with the ball.
He was also known as a composer and conductor of light orchestral music and served in the
Royal Air Force
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during World War Two. He conducted the Central Band of the RAF several times, and shortly after the war had the "extraordinary experience of conducting the Cologne and Bielefeld Symphony Orchestras when they performed (his) 'Coventry Suite' to German audiences in bomb-damaged concert premises."
[''Coventry Evening Telegraph'', 8 March 1951 ]
References
External links
Patrick Barrowat Cricket Archive
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1893 births
1974 deaths
English cricketers
Essex cricketers
Dorset cricketers