Patrick Lindsay Barrow (22 January 1893 – 7 May 1974) was an English

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er. He was a left-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for

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in the 1922 season. He was born in Plaistow and died in

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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

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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

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