Granville Bromley-Martin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Granville Bromley-Martin

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1875

Date of Death: 31-May-1941

Profession: banker, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Granville Bromley-Martin

  • Granville Edward Bromley-Martin (18 October 1875 – 31 May 1941) was an English first-class cricketer: right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm slow bowler who played for Oxford University and Worcestershire around the turn of the 20th century. Born in Callow End, Worcestershire, of the family that ran Martins Bank, Bromley-Martin was educated at Eton where he was captain of the cricket XI and president of "Pop" (the Eton Society).
  • He then went up to New College, Oxford, where he made his first-class cricket debut for Oxford University in 1897 against AJ Webbe's XI at The Parks and making 56 and 23 in a five-wicket victory.
  • Later in the season he hit his maiden first-class century, and what was to remain a career high, when he scored 137 out of 250 as Oxford defeated Sussex by an innings.
  • He finished the season with 409 runs at 34.08, which again were to remain career bests. 1898 was a relatively thin year for Bromley-Martin, and he averaged only a little over 20.
  • The following season he turned out for Worcestershire in their first ever first-class game, against Yorkshire, and though making only nought and 12 he played in nine further games for the county that summer, appearing on several occasions with his brother Eliot.
  • Against Derbyshire in August, he made his second and last hundred when he hit 129 (including 19 fours) in a crushing innings-and-218-run win. Bromley-Martin made ten more appearances for Worcestershire in 1900, but made only one fifty and averaged barely 18.
  • He was then out of the county side for two full seasons before returning in 1903 to play six more games – again with just the single half-century.
  • In 1904 he claimed his solitary first-class wicket against Kent when he dismissed Arthur Fielder for 37, Fielder having added 103 for the tenth wicket with James Seymour (136). Later in 1904 Bromley-Martin appeared against his old university, making 38.
  • His final first-class game was against Warwickshire in early August; he made 56 and 1 in a drawn match.
  • He died in Streat, Sussex, at the age of 65. Granville's brother Eliot also played for both Oxford University and Worcestershire, and his nephew Douglas Holland-Martin played twice in first-class games for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. In later life Bromley-Martin was deputy-chairman of the family bank, and a director of other banks and of the British North Borneo Company.
  • He was a trustee of the Savile Club.

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