21 Facts About Keith Barlow

Keith Barlow was an English amateur cricketer and chairman of the paper manufacturer Wiggins Teape.

Keith Barlow was a right-handed batsman who died in 1930 aged 39 after suffering from ill health for much of his life.

Keith Barlow was the second son of Alice and Edward Percy Keith Barlow and was born at Kensington in London in August 1890.

Keith Barlow's father was the chairman of paper manufacturer Wiggins Teape which operated the Buckland paper mill near Dover in Kent.

Keith Barlow purchased the Kearsney Court estate on the edge of Dover in 1900 and commissioned Thomas Mawson to design the gardens, one of Mawson's first independent commissions.

Keith Barlow was educated as a boarder at Wootton near Dover before ill health forced him to be educated at home.

Keith Barlow became a director of Wiggins Teape in 1912, the year his father died, and married Elsie Allen in 1913.

Keith Barlow made a single appearance for the Kent County Cricket Club Second XI in 1909.

Keith Barlow made his only first-class cricket appearances in 1910, playing in Kent's two University matches during the season against Oxford University at University Parks, and Cambridge University at Fenner's.

Keith Barlow scored 11 runs in his three first-class innings and took one catch in a Kent team which went on to win the 1910 County Championship, repeating the county's success of 1909.

Keith Barlow continued to play occasionally for the Kent Second XI in 1910 and 1911 before making a final appearance during the 1913 season, He made a total of 13 appearances for the Second XI, including six in the Minor Counties Championship, making a number of "useful" scores batting for the side.

Keith Barlow played club cricket for Band of Brothers, an amateur side associated with Kent's county team.

Keith Barlow was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, part of the reserve Territorial Force South Eastern Mounted Brigade, in 1911 alongside fellow Kent cricketers Allan Leach-Lewis and Eric Hatfeild as well as James Tylden, who went on to play for Kent after the war.

Keith Barlow's unit was mobilised in Canterbury on 4 August 1914 at the beginning of the First World War, and Barlow was appointed Acting Captain on 30 October.

Keith Barlow relinquished his commission due to ill health in December 1915, having been declared unfit for service by a medical board.

Keith Barlow was found to be suffering from chronic nephritis, hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure.

Keith Barlow had suffered nephritis, an inflammation of the kidneys, for 12 years and the disease was responsible for his ill health throughout much of his life.

Keith Barlow requested a medical re-examination in 1917 but was found permanently unfit for service.

Keith Barlow was appointed Chairman of Wiggins Teape in 1925, having been a director since 1912.

Keith Barlow was treasurer of the Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich and was elected a General Committee member at Kent County Cricket Club in 1920.

Keith Barlow died at Kensington in April 1930, aged 39.