Thomas Selby (4 November 1791 – 7 May 1874) was an English

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. He was born in

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, and died on 7 May 1874 at

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in France. He played on the Kent cricket team from 1839 to 1841.Thomas Selby
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2021-03-23.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 477–478.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)

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English cricketers 1791 births 1874 deaths People from Gillingham, Kent Kent cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1790s-stub