Henry Harben
Cricket Player
1900 –
Who is Henry Harben?
Major Henry Eric Southey Harben was an English cricketer. Harben was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. The son of Henry Devenish Harben and Agnes Helen Bostock, he was born at Farnham, Surrey.
He graduated as an Officer Cadet from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1919, entering the 1st King's Dragoon Guards with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant on 16 July 1919. In that same year Harben made his first-class debut for Sussex against Surrey in 1919 County Championship. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, the last of which came against Kent. In his four first-class matches for Sussex, he scored 126 runs at a batting average of 21.00, with a high score of 34.
Harben married Helen Prudence Ramsay, daughter of the cricketer Francis Ramsay, on 5 June 1927, though the couple later divorced. They had two children. He later married Iris Constance Kathleen de Stacpoole, daughter of George Edward Joseph Patrick de Stacpoole, 5th Duc de Stacpoole and Eileen Constance Palmer, on 29 April 1947, with the couple having three children. By 1970, Harben was living at Clonriff House, Oughterard, County Galway, Ireland.
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- Born
- Aug 1, 1900
- Education
- Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- Died
- May 14, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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