Edward Robert Kenneth Glover (19 July 1911 – 23 March 1967) 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 who played for

Glamorgan , HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = * West Glamorgan * Mid Glamorgan * South Glamorgan , Motto ...

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team between 1932 and 1938 as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Glover took 118 wickets for his county in the County Championship as an amateur cricketer who was "typical of the colourful and jovial amateurs" according to ''Wisden''. An alumnus of Sherborne School, he was also a skilled

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player. He was the brother-in-law of Glamorgan captain

Maurice Turnbull Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull (16 March 1906 – 5 August 1944) was a Welsh cricketer who played in nine Test matches for the England cricket team between 1930 and 1936. A talented all round sportsman, Turnbull excelled in several sports. In ...

. He and Maurice set up an insurance broking business before the 2nd World War, which Ted continued to run after Maurice's death during the war, until it was sold to Stenhouse in the mid-60s. Ted was also a freelance sports journalist associated with the ''Manchester Guardian'', ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and ''South Wales Echo''. He also served in the British Army shortly before and during World War II, serving with a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the Royal Artillery after having been commissioned on 21 June 1939 and being given the service number of 91487. He eventually attained the rank of

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on 1 May 1947.

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British Army Officers 1939−1945
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glover, Ted 1911 births 1967 deaths English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers Cricketers from Worcester, England People educated at Sherborne School British Army officers British Army personnel of World War II Royal Artillery officers