Charles Clover-Brown Cricketer
Charles Clover-Brown (18 September 1907 – 6 October 1982) was an English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break. He was born in Brentford, Middlesex and was educated at Harrow School, where he represented and captained the school cricket team. Clover-Brown made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. Clover-Brown played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1926 to 1933, which included 10 Minor Counties Championship matches. Clover-Brown made his first-class debut for Dr J Rockwood's Europeans XI against Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI in Colombo in December 1930. In this match, he scored 27 runs in the Europeans first-innings before being dismissed by Phiroze Palia, while in their second-innings he scored a single run before being dismissed by Mushtaq Ali. He played his second first-class match 5 years later, playing for Ceylon against the Indian University Occasionals. In this match, he scored 100* in the Ceylon first-innings, while in their second-innings he scored 16 runs before being dismissed by Dev Puri. He later served as President of Old Harrovians F.C. , obtaining the post in 1963. Clover-Brown died in Hove, Sussex on 6 October 1982.