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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Neville Tufnell<br />
| image = <br />
| caption =<br />
| fullname = Neville Charsley Tufnell<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|6|13|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Simla]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] <br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|8|3|1887|6|13|df=yes}} <br />
| death_place = [[Whitechapel]], London, England<br />
| batting = Right-handed <br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = Wicket-keeper<br />
| club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]<br />
| year1 = 1908–1910<br />
| club2 = [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]]<br />
| year2 = 1922<br />
| columns = 2<br />
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 14<br />
| bat avg1 = 14.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0<br />
| top score1 = 14<br />
| deliveries1 = –<br />
| wickets1 = –<br />
| bowl avg1 = –<br />
| fivefor1 = –<br />
| tenfor1 = –<br />
| best bowling1 = –<br />
| catches/stumpings1= 0/1<br />
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches2 = 70 <br />
| runs2 = 1,514<br />
| bat avg2 = 14.28<br />
| 100s/50s2 = 1/4<br />
| top score2 = 102<br />
| deliveries2 = 84<br />
| wickets2 = 1<br />
| bowl avg2 = 118.00<br />
| fivefor2 = 0<br />
| tenfor2 = 0<br />
| best bowling2 = 1/54<br />
| catches/stumpings2= 62/40<br />
| international = true<br />
| country = England<br />
| testdebutagainst = South Africa<br />
| testdebutdate = 11 March<br />
| testdebutyear = 1910<br />
| onetest = true<br />
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/330/330.html CricketArchive<br />
| date = 6 November<br />
| year = 2022<br />
}}<br />
'''Neville Charsley Tufnell''' (13 June 1887 – 3 August 1951) was a British [[cricket]]er and army officer.<br />
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Born in 1887 in [[Shimla|Simla]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab, India]], Tufnell played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) in a first-class career as a [[wicketkeeper]] that lasted from [[Marylebone Cricket Club cricket team in New Zealand in 1906–07|1906]] to [[1924 English cricket season|1924]]. He was selected to tour [[Marylebone Cricket Club cricket team in New Zealand in 1906–07|New Zealand in 1906–07]] with MCC before he had played a first-class match. He also played one [[Test cricket|Test match]] for [[English cricket team|England]] at [[Cape Town]] against [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] in [[English cricket team in South Africa in 1909–10|1909–10]] while still a student at Cambridge. He played a single first-class match for Surrey in 1922 against Oxford University, captaining the side.<br />
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Tufnell was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXJtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 |title=Aristocrats Go to War: Uncovering the Zillebeke Cemetery |first=Jerry |last=Murland |publisher=Pen and Sword |date=2010|isbn=9781844685301 }}</ref> He was commissioned into the 1st Volunteer Battalion (later 4th Battalion), [[Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment]] in 1908. He left before the [[First World War]] with the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]], but rejoined with the same rank in 1914. He later transferred to the [[Grenadier Guards]] ([[Special Reserve (militia)|Special Reserve]]). Tufnell was appointed a [[Gentleman Usher]] to [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]] upon the King's accession. In 1939 he was appointed [[lieutenant-colonel]] as a group commander in the [[National Defence Companies]], and transferred to the [[King's Royal Rifle Corps]] later the same year.<br />
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Tufnell was also involved in politics. In 1945 at the General Election, he stood as the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate for the [[Windsor (UK Parliament constituency)|Windsor]] division of [[Berkshire]]. He came third and did not stand for parliament again.<ref>British parliamentary election results 1950–1973, Craig, F.W.S.</ref><br />
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He died in 1951 in [[Whitechapel]], [[London]].<br />
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