Val Romney
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Valentine (Val) Romney (born c.1718, probably in the vicinity of Sevenoaks, Kent; died 1773 at Sevenoaks) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-Georgian period.
Romney was captain of the Kent XI in the famous match against All-England at the Artillery Ground in 1744. He was lauded by James Love as a "mighty play’r" following his efforts in that game.
He lived mostly at Sevenoaks and was employed by the 1st Duke of Dorset as gardener at Knole House, a post later occupied by John Minshull. He was last recorded as playing for Kent in 1751.
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- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Early Kent Cricketers by John Goulstone (EKC)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
