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| country = England
| fullname = James Levett Kaye
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| birth_date = 27 December 1861
| birth_place = [[Potters Bar]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|11|17|1861|12|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Kensington]], [[London]], England
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| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| family = [[Henry Kaye (cricketer)|Henry Kaye]] (brother)
| club1 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year1 = 1881
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 14
| bat avg1 = 7.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 11
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/1
| date = 22 January
| year = 2010
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15835.html Cricinfo
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'''James Levett Kaye''' (27 December 1861 – 17 November 1917) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

The son of James Kaye and Elizabeth Thoroton, he was born at [[Potters Bar]] in December 1861.<ref name="WIN">{{cite web|url=https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=280&TableName=ta_wwifactfile|title=Kaye, James Levett|publisher=www.winchestercollegeatwar.com|accessdate=10 November 2022}}</ref> He was educated at [[Winchester College]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Winchester College, 1836–1906: A Register|last1=Dauglish|first1=M. G.|last2=Wainewright|first2=John Bannerman|publisher=P. and G. Wells.|location=Winchester|year=1907|page=319|url=https://archive.org/details/winchestercolleg00wincuoft|language=en}}</ref> playing for the college cricket team for three years,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229822.html|title=Wisden - Other deaths in 1917|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=10 November 2022}}</ref> in addition to representing the college at [[Rackets (sport)|racquets]].<ref name="WIN"/> From Winchester, Kaye proceeded to the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He graduated from there into the [[Royal Berkshire Regiment]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in September 1882.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25145|date=8 September 1882|page=4179}}</ref> Prior to his graduation, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] against the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] at [[Lord's]] in 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6698/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by James Kaye|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as a [[wicket-keeper]] and [[Batting_order_(cricket)#Opening_batters|opening batsman]], he was dismissed for 3 runs in Hampshire's first innings by [[Wilfred Flowers]], while in their second innings he was dismissed for 11 runs by [[Arnold Rylott]]; as wicket-keeper, he made a single [[stumping]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2487.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire, 1881|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

With the Berkshire Regiment, he served in both [[History of Egypt under the British|British Egypt]] and [[Gibraltar]]. He served in the [[Mahdist War]] in 1885, surviving the siege at [[Suakin]], for which he was decorated with the [[Khedive's Star]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Later in 1885, he joined the [[British Indian Army]].<ref name="WIN"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25483|date=23 June 1885|page=2870}}</ref> He initially served in the [[25th Punjabis]] and the [[5th Cavalry (India)|5th Bengal Cavalry]],<ref name="WIN"/> before being appointed to the [[Bengal Staff Corps]] in March 1887.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25685|date=22 March 1887|page=1689}}</ref> Kaye transferred from active military service in 1889, joining the [[Indian Political Service]] (IPS); upon his appointment in the IPS, he volunteered with the 1st [[Central India Horse]] from 1890,<ref name="WIN"/> in which promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] came in September 1893 and [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in July 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26458|date=14 November 1893|page=6357}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27362|date=4 October 1901|page=6487}}</ref> In the IPS, Kaye was appointed an assistant resident at [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Kashmir]] in 1892, later being appointed settlement commissioner at Jamona from 1895 to 1904. Further appointments to political officer at [[Alwar]] in December 1905, resident at [[Indore]] in 1907, and resident at [[Mewar]] from 1911 to 1916 followed.<ref name="WIN"/>

Kaye returned to military service with the Censor’s Department during the [[First World War]],<ref name="WIN"/> with him holding the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] by 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29589|date=19 May 1916|page=5039|supp=y}}</ref> He retired from active service on account of ill health in January 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29896|date=9 January 1917|page=391}}</ref> Returning to England, he died at his residence in [[Kensington]] on 17 November 1917.<ref>Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Kaye. ''Evening Mail''. 19 November 1917. p. 5</ref> His younger brother, [[Henry Kaye (cricketer)|Henry]], was also a first-class cricketer, playing for [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=15835}}

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[[Category:People from Potters Bar]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Hertfordshire]]
[[Category:People educated at Winchester College]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Royal Berkshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Hampshire cricketers]]
[[Category:Wicket-keepers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of the Mahdist War]]
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[[Category:Indian Political Service officers]]
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