Gilbert Curgenven was an English cricket

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er who played first class cricket for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1901 to 1922.

Curgenven was born at Friar Gate, Derby

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, the son of William Curgenven

William Curgenven

William Grafton Curgenven was an English doctor and cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1872 and 1878.-Biography and career:...

 a doctor who was one of the founders of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. He was educated at Repton School

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 and became a farmer. He made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the 1901 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1901

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 in August against Hampshire

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 when he made 15 not out in his second innings. Although he played six more games that season, he only played four games in the 1902 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1902

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 and one in the 1903 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1903

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. He played in full in the 1904 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1904

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1904 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty three years. It was their tenth season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish tenth in the Championship table....

 making his top score of 124 against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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. In the 1905 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1905

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, he was down to four games and then was absent from English first class cricket until the 1909 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1909

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. He played a spread of games in 1909 and also in the 1910 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1910

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 when he scored centuries against Essex

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 and Nottinghamshire

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. He went to British Columbia

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 where in 1912 and 1913 he played for a newly formed club at Cowichan

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. In a game for them against the Australians he took 5 for 89 in a non first-class game. Back in Derbyshire in the 1914 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1914

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, he played a full season that year.

During World War I

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 Curgenven was a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd County of London Yeomanry and then joined the Royal Flying Corps. After the war, he played fully for Derbyshire in the 1921 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1921

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1921 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty years. It was their twenty-third season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish twelfth..- 1921 season :...

 and a partially in the 1922 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1922

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1922 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty-one years. It was their twenty-fourth season in the County Championship and they won six matches to finish eleventh.-1922 season:...

 which was his last.

Curgenven was a right-hand batsman and played 169 innings in 96 matches at an average of 20.97. He scored three centuries with a top score of 124. He was a slow bowler and took 25 first class wickets at an average of 46.52 and a best performance of 3 for 32.

Curgenven died at Birmingham

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, Warwickshire at the age of 52. As well as his father, his brother Henry Curgenven

Henry Curgenven

Henry Grafton Curgenven was an English cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in 1896 and 1897, and for Cambridge University in 1897....

also played cricket for Derbyshire.

Curgenven married Lily Katinka D Naerup at Swansea in 1906 and had two daughters.