Charles Barlow (businessman)
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Full name | Charles Sydney Barlow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Durban, Natal, South Africa | 10 May 1905||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 June 1979 Sotogrande, Spain | (aged 74)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1925–1926 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 9 May 1925 Somerset v Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 15 May 1926 Somerset v Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 20 December 2009 |
Charles Sydney Barlow (10 May 1905 – 1 June 1979) was a South African businessman, conservationist and philanthropist who built up
In his family, and publicly as both a sportsman and a businessman, he was widely known as "Punch" Barlow – apparently for no better reason than that his elder sister was named Judy.[1]
Life and business career
Barlow was born in Durban, the son of Ernest "Billy" Barlow, a businessman who had started as an agent for clothing and woollen goods, but later diversified into electrical equipment.[1] He was educated in the UK at Clifton College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
On graduation, he returned to South Africa to join the family company, his father having died in 1921, and was responsible within a couple of years for a major deal that saw the Barlow company become the distributor for
Noted as a critic and opponent of the National Party and its apartheid policies, Barlow was also an environmentalist and a sponsor of conservation initiatives. Three species of bird are named after him, in recognition of his backing for expeditions of discovery: they include Barlow's lark.[1]
Cricket career
On his first-class debut Barlow took two wickets for Somerset in the first-innings of the match against Kent, bowling England Test cricketer Frank Woolley, who had already scored 215, and George Collins. On a pair after Somerset's first-innings, Barlow made his top-score of 23 in the second, but could not help prevent Somerset falling to an innings and 174 run defeat.[2] He fell for a duck again in the first-innings on his next appearance, over a year later against Sussex. He avoided a pair by claiming one run in the second-innings, but remained wicket-less in the match.[3]
Earlier he had been cricket captain at Clifton College in 1923 as an all-rounder, when he played in the schools cricket festival matches at
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-85704-306-1.
- ^ "Kent v Somerset". CricketArchive. 9 May 1925. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ "Sussex v Somerset". CricketArchive. 15 May 1926. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ "The Universities – Cambridge; The Freshmen's Match". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1925 ed.). Wisden. p. 414.
External links
- Charles Barlow at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Charles Barlow at ESPNcricinfo