Henry Keigwin

Henry David Keigwin (14 May 1881 – 20 September 1916) was an English cricketer. He was born in Lexden, in Colchester and died near Thiepval, France. He was educated at Clifton College,[1] along with his brothers R. P. Keigwin and Herbert Keigwin

Keigwin, whose brothers R. P. Keigwin and Herbert Keigwin also played first-class cricket, played for Essex and Scotland in his three years of first-class cricket between 1906 and 1909. He scored 77 and 27 for the Gentlemen of England against Surrey in April 1906, W.G. Grace's final first-class appearance. He returned from Africa to serve with the Lancashire Fusiliers at the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War and died on the Western Front.[2]

  1. ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p213: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  2. ^ "Cricketers who died in World War 1 – Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2018.