# Allen Herbert

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**Allen Henry William Herbert** (20 October 1852 – 14 September 1897) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket) during the 1870s.

Herbert was born at [Dartford](/source/Dartford) in [Kent](/source/Kent) in 1852, the son of Frederick and Bessie Newenham Herbert (*[née](/source/N%C3%A9e)* Stuart).[1][2] His father was a [Commander](/source/Commander_(Royal_Navy)) in the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) and Herbert was educated at the [Royal Naval School](/source/Royal_Naval_School) at [New Cross](/source/New_Cross). His father died in 1868 and by the 1871 census he was living with his widowed mother at [Saffron Walden](/source/Saffron_Walden) in [Essex](/source/Essex).[2]

All 11 of Herbert's [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) matches were played between 1872 and 1876. He played eight times in first-class matches for [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC), making his first-class debut for the club in 1872, scoring a half-century against [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club).[2][3] This proved to be the only time he passed 50 runs in a first-class match; he scored a total of 239 runs at a [batting average](/source/Batting_average_(cricket)) of 14.09 runs per innings.[1] He made one appearance each for [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) and [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club), and another for the Gentlemen of the South.[2][3] In minor cricket, he played once for [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) in 1872, and regularly for MCC during that period, scoring a century against the [Royal Artillery](/source/Royal_Artillery_Cricket_Club) in 1875 at [Lord's](/source/Lord's).[2]

By 1881, Herbert was working as a clerk at [Hoare's Bank](/source/Hoare's_Bank), and lived in [Belgravia](/source/Belgravia) in London. His elder brother, [St Leger Herbert](/source/St_Leger_Herbert), was a soldier and journalist who [died during the Mahdist War](/source/List_of_journalists_killed_during_the_Mahdist_War) in 1885 in [Mahdist Sudan](/source/Mahdist_Sudan). Herbert himself died in Belgravia in 1897 aged 44.[1][2]

## References

1. [Allen Herbert](http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14744.html), [ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo). Retrieved 2 November 2017.

1. Carlaw 2020, pp. 245–246.

1. [Allen Herbert](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30170/30170.html), CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

## Bibliography

- Carlaw, Derek (2020). [*Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part One (1806–1914)*](https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf). Cardiff: [ACS](/source/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians)

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