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A-Z (J4)

February 16, 2018, 8:42 pm
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Jephson, Rev. William Vincent (102 – Amateur) born Hertfordshire 6.10.1873, died Bath, Somerset 12.11.1956. He was educated at Haileybury and Keble College Oxford, but did not play for the university. He made his first-class debut age 29, v Derbyshire at Southampton in1903, but despite that late start and his amateur status, he played 57 first-class matches, mostly up to 1913, with one further game in 1919. He scored 1,571 runs for the county at 16.89, with six half-centuries and a best of 90 v Worcestershire at Southampton in his debut season. His one century came in the only first-class match played at Broadhalfpenny Down – 114* for Hambledon v an England XI to commemorate the achievements of the great 18th century side. Hambledon won the 12-a-side three day match by five wickets. He played also in the Hampshire side of 1912, the first to beat the Australians, scoring 55 in his one innings. From 1920-1925, he played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset.

Jesson, Robert Wilfred Fairey (138 – Amateur) born Southampton 17.6.1886, killed in action, Mesopotamia 22.2.1917. He was educated at Sherborne, playing in the XI, and then at Oxford University he played in various matches, but only one first-class (no ‘blue’). He was a Southampton solicitor who played in 14 matches for Hampshire, mostly in 1907, plus two in 1908 and one in 1910. He was a leg-break bowler and hard-hitting batsman who scored 191 runs with a best of 38, and took 21 wickets (24.42).

He made his Hampshire debut v Warwickshire at Southampton in 1907 and after scoring 23* batting at number seven, he took 5-42, despite which, Hampshire lost. He could not sustain that, but did once take the wicket of Jack Hobbs – albeit after Hobbs scored 135. In the same match, Jesson made his highest score of 38. He fought in the Great War and rose to become a Major in the 5th Wiltshire Regiment. He was wounded at Gallipoli, recuperated from shell-shock at the old Netley Hospital, and was finally killed near Kut, Mesopotamia in 1917. He was also a rugby half-back for Trojans, and Rosslyn Park – one of 85 members of that club to die in the War. Their story is told in The Final Whistle: the Great War in Fifteen Players, by Stephen Cooper.

Jessop, Rev. Gilbert Laird Osborne (265 – Amateur) born London 6.9.1906, died London 16.1.1990. His father Gilbert Laird Jessop was one of the great fast-scoring batsmen, who played in 18 Test Matches (one century). GLO Jessop played cricket at Cambridge University but not first-class, made his first-class debut for MCC in 1929, and played in three first-class matches for Hampshire in 1933, captaining them in the absence of Tennyson. He scored just 47 runs at 9.40, and took one wicket. In 1936, he played for Cambridgeshire and from 1939-1954 for Dorset.

Jesty, Trevor Edward (355) born Gosport 2.6.1948. All-rounder Trevor Jesty was one of the finest of all Hampshire-born cricketers, and while he represented England in limited-overs internationals in Australia, it is extraordinary that a man of his ability and achievements never played Test cricket. He came through Hampshire’s junior sides, played for the 2nd XI in 1965, and in August 1966 made his first-class debut v Essex at Portsmouth. There were a few matches in 1968 and from 1969 he became a regular member of the side in both formats and both disciplines, in addition to being a good fielder. He was a member of the side that won the Championship in 1973 and the Sunday League in 1975 and in 1978; it was in the mid-1970s that he took 50 wickets in a season for the first time (1974) and in 1976 he passed 1,000 runs for the first-time and somewhat belatedly scored his first Championship century. Having achieved that, he scored 11 centuries in three seasons, and after a couple of less successful years with the bat, in 1982 he scored 1,645 runs at 58.75 with eight centuries – a record only Phil Mead has surpassed for the county. In 1981, he had taken 52 wickets at 19.86, although after this there would be just over 100 more in his final decade, as he became much more a specialist batsman.

He played some fine limited-overs innings including 96 in 40 minutes v Somerset in 1980, and 166* v Surrey at Portsmouth, easily outscoring Gordon Greenidge in a stand of 269*. In that match, he became the first player to score 4,000 runs and take 200 wickets in the Sunday League. As vice-captain, he would deputise for Nick Pocock in the early 1980s, but when Pocock announced his retirement near the end of the 1984 season, Jesty was overlooked in favour of Mark Nicholas, and upset, he departed for Surrey, Lancashire and then a full career as a first-class umpire and coach. It was a sad end to the fine Hampshire career of a local man. He scored 14,753 runs with 26 first-class centuries for Hampshire, took 475 wickets, and in limited-overs cricket there were 6,859 runs with six centuries and 334 wickets – an outstanding record.

Jewell, Guy Alonzo Frederick William (325) born Axford, Hampshire 6.10.16, died Basingstoke 23.12.1965. Guy Jewell was a slow-left-arm bowler, who played for Berkshire before the war, and for Hampshire 2nd XI from 1950, although he was a leading club cricketer in north Hampshire for many years, captaining the Basingstoke & North Hants Club. In a 12-a-side match for them v PI Bedford’s XI in August 1956, he took all 11 wickets for 52 runs including a hat-trick. In 1952, he and Mike Barnard made their Hampshire debuts v Glamorgan at Swansea but while Barnard was embarking on a long career, it was Jewell’s only first-class match. He scored 0 & 1 (run out) and for his one wicket dismissed Willie Jones; Hampshire won by 21 runs, but Jewell never appeared again.

 

 

 

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