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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1909 – 1976)}}<br />
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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Arthur Barmby<br />
| image = <br />
| country = England<br />
| full_name = Arthur Geoffrey Barmby<br />
| birth_date = 24 June 1909<br />
| birth_place = [[West Ham]], [[Essex]], England<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|8|16|1909|6|24|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], England<br />
| nickname = <br />
| family = <br />
| batting = Left-handed<br />
| bowling = Left-arm [[Seam bowling|medium]]<br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = 1943/44<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 0<br />
| bat avg1 = 0.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 0<br />
| deliveries1 = 222<br />
| wickets1 = 1<br />
| bowl avg1 = 64.00<br />
| fivefor1 = –<br />
| tenfor1 = –<br />
| best bowling1 = 1/64<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–<br />
| date = 4 January<br />
| year = 2024<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-barmby-27009 Cricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''Arthur Geoffrey Barmby''' (24 June 1909 – 16 August 1976) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Army]].<br />
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Barmby was born at [[West Ham]] in June 1909. He was educated at [[St Paul's School, London|St Paul's School]], where he played for the school [[cricket]] team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12647/all_teams.html|title=Teams Arthur Barmby played for|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He later served in the [[Second World War]], being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] into the [[Royal Artillery]] (RA) in September 1941.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35282|date=19 September 1941|page=5507|supp=y}}</ref> While serving in [[British India]] during the war, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team]] at [[M A Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the 1943–44 [[Madras Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12647/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Barmby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match from the [[Batting order (cricket)#Lower order or tail|lower-order]], he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[K. S. Kannan]]. With his left-arm [[Seam bowling|medium pace bowling]], he took the wicket of [[M. Swaminathan]] for the cost of 64 runs from 37 [[over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17400.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1943/44|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref><br />
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Barmby continued his service with the RA after the war in the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] (TA), for which he was decorated with the [[Territorial Decoration]] in March 1966, for twenty years' service in the TA.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43935|date=25 March 1966|page=3513|supp=y}}</ref> Having returned to England, Barmby lived in [[Chester]] with his wife and played [[club cricket]] for [[Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club]], in addition to playing [[rugby union]] for [[Chester RUFC|Chester Rugby Club]].<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19760903/549/0028|title=Acknowledgements|work=Cheshire Observer|location=[[Chester]]|page=28|date=3 September 1976|access-date=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> By profession, he was an official in the insurance industry.<ref name="WIFE">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19690711/462/0023|title=Announcements|work=Cheshire Observer|location=Chester|page=23|date=11 July 1969|access-date=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He died at [[Worthing]] in August 1976;<ref name="NEWS"/> he was survived by his second wife, with his first having died in 1969.<ref name="WIFE"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:Royal Artillery officers]]<br />
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