# Colin Fairservice

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**Colin Fairservice** (6 August 1909 – 29 December 1999) was an English professional [cricketer](/source/Cricket). He played for [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) from 1929 to 1933 and for [Middlesex County Cricket Club](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club) in 1936, making a total of 74 [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) appearances in his career.

Fairservice was born in [Hadlow](/source/Hadlow) in [Kent](/source/Kent) in 1909, the son of [Bill Fairservice](/source/Bill_Fairservice) who made over 300 first-class appearances for Kent between 1902 and 1921.[1][2] He grew up in [Kent](/source/Kent) and [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland) and attended [Newcastle Royal Grammar School](/source/Newcastle_Royal_Grammar_School).[3][4]

Having played for [Northumberland Juniors](/source/Northumberland_County_Cricket_Club), Fairservice first played for Kent Second XI in the [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Championship) in 1927. He made his first-class debut in 1929 against [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Queen's Park, Chesterfield](/source/Queen's_Park,_Chesterfield). After playing occasionally for the county in 1929 and 1930 he became a regular in the First XI in 1931 and was awarded his [county cap](/source/County_cap) in that season.[3][4][5] Fairservice made a total of 59 appearances for Kent before leaving the county at the end of the 1933 season. He spent the following two years qualifying to play for Middlesex, during which he made occasional first-class appearances for [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC). During 1936 he played six times for Middlesex before ending his first-class career.[4]

Fairservice worked at [Stonyhurst College](/source/Stonyhurst_College) and then coached cricket and rugby at [The King's School, Canterbury](/source/The_King's_School,_Canterbury) between 1954 and 1975.[3][6][7] He coached [David Gower](/source/David_Gower) who went on to captain the [England cricket team](/source/England_cricket_team).[8] He died at [Canterbury](/source/Canterbury) in 1999 aged 90, at the time Kent's oldest living cricketer.[1][3]

## References

1. [Colin Fairservice](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12945.html), [ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo). Retrieved 14 June 2017.

1. [Bill Fairservice](http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12989.html), [ESPNcricinfo](/source/ESPNcricinfo). Retrieved 14 June 2017.

1. Carlaw, pp.75–76. (Retrieved 23 December 2020.)

1. [Colin Fairservice](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10939/10939.html), CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 June 2017. (subscription required)

1. [Kent County Cricket Club – Capped Male Players](https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Kent-Capped-Players-List-2019.pdf), [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club). Retrieved 23 December 2020.

1. [King's Canterbury](http://schoolscricketonline.co.uk/kings-canterbury/), Schools Cricket Online. Retrieved 14 June 2017.

1. Lewis P (2014) *For Kent and Country*, pp.170–171. Brighton: Reveille Press.

1. Gower D (2014) *An Endangered Species*, pp.42–43. London: Simon & Schuster. ([Available online](https://books.google.com/books?id=NphjAwAAQBAJ&dq=charles%20rowe%20kent%20cricket&pg=PP42). Retrieved 15 November 2016).

## Bibliography

- Carlaw, Derek (2020). [*Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part Two (1919–1939)*](https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_Two.pdf). Cardiff: [ACS](/source/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians)

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