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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Patrick Keen
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Patrick John Keen
| birth_date = 30 June 1911
| birth_place = [[Kohat]], [[North-West Frontier Province]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|3|8|1911|6|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Hampshire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1939/40
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 1
| bat avg1 = 0.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 1
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 16 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/patrick-keen-30251 Cricinfo
}}

'''Patrick John Keen''' {{postnominal|CMG|MBE}} (30 June 1911 – 8 March 1983) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[Indian Political Department|Indian Political Service]], having previously served in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

==Life and military career==
The son of the Brigadier P. H. Keen,<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001973/19580131/204/0011|title=Married at Emsworth|work=Hampshire Telegraph|location=[[Portsmouth]]|page=11|date=31 January 1938|access-date=16 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> he was born in [[British India]] at [[Kohat]] on 30 June 1911.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} He came from a family of colonial administrators in India, with his grandfather and uncle both holding positions in the [[Indian Political Department]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy: The British Legation in Kabul, 1922–1948|first=Maximilian|last=Drephal|date=2019|pages=136–7|publisher=[[Springer Nature|Springer International]]|location=[[London]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0w-yDwAAQBAJ|isbn=9783030239602|language=en}}</ref> Keen was educated in England at [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury]], before attending the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. From there, he was commissioned into the [[Royal Hampshire Regiment|Hampshire Regiment]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in January 1931,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33685|date=30 January 1931|page=676}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in January 1934.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34019|date=30 January 1934|page=680}}</ref> He was appointed to the [[British Indian Army]] as an ''[[aide-de-camp]]'' to [[Ralph Griffith (Indian Army officer)|Sir Ralph Griffith]], [[List of governors of the North-West Frontier Province|Governors of the North-West Frontier Province]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34228|date=6 December 1935|page=7756}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34217|date=8 November 1935|page=7048}}</ref> He was promoted to lieutenant in the British Indian Army October 1936,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34373|date=19 February 1937|page=1177}}</ref> with promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] following in January 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34610|date=24 March 1939|page=2013}}</ref> In India, Keen made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the 1939–40 [[Madras Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13814/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Patrick Keen|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=16 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Europeans first innings by [[A. G. Ram Singh]], while in their second innings he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[C. K. Nayudu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17253.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1939/40|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=16 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Keen was a member of the [[Indian Political Department|Indian Political Service]] during the [[Second World War]], being assistant-director of the [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]] at [[Quetta]]. In May 1943, he was appointed to be [[George VI|His Majesty's]] vice-consul at [[Bushehr]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36407|date=3 March 1944|page=1065}}</ref> He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in the [[1944 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36309|date=31 December 1943|page=24|supp=y}}</ref> After the end of the war, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in December 1949,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38784|date=16 December 1949|page=5951|supp=y}}</ref> having retired from the British Indian Army following [[Indian Independence Act 1947|Indian Independence]]. He was later made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] in the [[1968 New Year Honours]] for his post-war work with the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Foreign Office]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44484|date=29 December 1967|page=4|supp=y}}</ref> Keen later retired to Hampshire, where he died in March 1983. He was married to Anna Cunitia Gordon-Smith of [[Stansted Park]], with the couple marrying at St James' Church in [[Emsworth]] in January 1958.<ref name="NEWS"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=30251}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keen, Patrick}}
[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:1983 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kohat District]]
[[Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Royal Hampshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George]]

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