Raleigh Chichester-Constable
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Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable played first class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club and the Minor Counties in an intermittent career which spanned 16 years from 1919 to 1935.
A right handed batsman and right arm fast bowler, he played in 24 first class matches, scoring a total of 152 runs at 8.94 with a top score of 47* and took 4 wickets at 60.74.
His only match for Yorkshire came in the game against Essex at The Circle in Hull in July 1919. Batting at number 11 he scored a duck in Yorkshire's first innings of 241 and bowled just 4 overs without success for 6 runs as Essex were beaten by an innings and 58 runs.
He played for the Army against the Navy in a first class match in 1921, taking a career best 2 for 42 as the Army won by 10 wickets and took one for thirty five for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenners two years later.
The bulk of his first class experience came on an epic five month winter tour of India undertaken by the M.C.C. in 1926/27. Mr Chichester-Constable played against the Muslims and Parsees, the Hindus and The Rest, The Europeans, Rawalpindi, the Army, Southern Punjab, Northern Punjab, Rajputana and Bombay Baroda & Central India Railways, the Europeans and Parsees, the Hindus and Muslims, Rangoon Gymkhana, Burma, an Indian XI, Madras, the Ceylonese, Aligarh University Past and Present and Patiala.
He reappeared for two more matches in 1935, playing for the Minor Counties against both Oxford and Cambridge University.
Born on 21 December 1890 in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire he changed his name from Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester to Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable in January 1895 and died on 26 May 1963 in Burton Constable, East Riding of Yorkshire.
