Horatio Powys-Keck, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1873
Date of Death: 30-Jan-1952
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Horatio Powys-Keck
- Horatio James Powys-Keck (7 March 1873 – 30 January 1952) was an English first-class cricketer who played nine matches between 1903 and 1907. Born in Hyères, France and educated at Monkton Combe School, Powys-Keck's debut came for Oxford University Authentics on their tour of India in 1902-03.
- The team played three games (the only first-class matches they ever played) and Powys-Keck was chosen for the first of these, against Gentlemen of India at the Polo Ground, Delhi.
- This was the only first-class match ever played at this location; originally scheduled for Queen's Park Gardens in the same city it was moved because the ground was too small and the wicket too bad. In this game, Powys-Keck took seven wickets: 2-30 in the first innings (his maiden victim being Kenneth Goldie), and 5-27 (which was to remain his career best) in the second. In June 1903 Powys-Keck made his first County Championship appearance, playing for Worcestershire against Hampshire, scoring a useful 25 from number nine in the first innings and picking up two wickets.
- He played one other match for the county that season, against Somerset in early July, scoring 0 not out in his only innings and bowling ten overs for 35 runs without taking a wicket. In 1904-05, Powys-Keck was chosen for Lord Brackley's tour of the West Indies.
- He played five matches on this tour between January and April 1905, scoring 37 runs at 7.40 and taking 12 wickets at 19.41; his best bowling was 4-24 against British Guiana in early March, in a match that also saw him make the highest score of his career, an unbeaten 25, despite his batting at the bottom of the order. After his return to England, Powys-Keck played just one more first-class game, for Worcestershire against Oxford University in late May 1907.
- In a somewhat symmetrical display, in each innings he took a single wicket (both bowled) and scored a single run. In 1930 he changed his name to Horatio James Powys.
- He died in Notting Hill, London at the age of 78. His great-uncle Arthur Crichton played one game for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1856.
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