Joseph Humphries (19 May 1876 – 7 May 1946) was an English cricket

Cricket

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er who played three Test matches

Test cricket

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 for England on their tour to Australia in 1907-08 and for Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 and the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 between 1899

1899 English cricket season

In the 1899 English cricket season, Surrey won the County Championship for the first time in four years, and the title turned out to be their last until 1914. Surrey's season was dominated by draws, with fourteen out of 26 games drawn, just like the season in general - especially the Australian...

 and 1914

1914 English cricket season

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.

Humphries was born in Stonebroom

Stonebroom

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, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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,the son of John Thomas Humphries and his wife Eliza. His father was a coal miner.

Humphries was a wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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, who made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the 1899 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1899 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-eight years. It was their fifth season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.-1899 season:Derbyshire played...

. However with William Storer

William Storer

William Storer was an English footballer and a cricketer who played six Tests from 1897 to 1899, played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1905 and played football for Derby County...

 in place, he did not earn a regular place in the Derbyshire side until the 1902 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1902

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1902 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty-one years. It was their eighth season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish tenth in the Championship table....

. Humphries was party to a dramatic finish in the second Test in Melbourne in January 1908, when as tailender he put on 34, and England won by 1 wicket to avoid a tie. His career ended with the start of the First World War.

Humphries died in Chesterfield

Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Its population is 70,260 , making it Derbyshire's largest town...

, Derbyshire, at the age of nearly 70.