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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stuart_Boyes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stuart_Boyes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Boyes > Source revision: 1357077978 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Stuart Boyes | country = England | fullname = George Stuart Boyes | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|3|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Southampton](/source/Southampton), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|2|11|1899|3|31|df=yes}} | death_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England | batting = Right-handed | bowling = [Slow left-arm orthodox](/source/Slow_left-arm_orthodox) | role = | family = | club1 = [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club) | year1 = {{nowrap|1921–1939}} | club2 = [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) | year2 = 1926/27 | columns = 1 | column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket) | matches1 = 504 | runs1 = 8,078 | bat avg1 = 14.95 | 100s/50s1 = 2/17 | top score1 = 104 | deliveries1 = 85,860 | wickets1 = 1,472 | bowl avg1 = 23.51 | fivefor1 = 74 | tenfor1 = 11 | best bowling1 = 9/57 | catches/stumpings1 = 495/– | date = 15 October | year = 2024 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/stuart-boyes-9191 Cricinfo }} '''George Stuart Boyes''' (31 March 1899 – 11 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer, born in [Southampton](/source/Southampton), who played for [Hampshire County Cricket Club](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club). ==Cricket== ===Early life and career=== George Stuart Boyes was born in [Southampton](/source/Southampton) on 31 March 1899. He was spotted as a [slow left-arm orthodox](/source/slow_left-arm_orthodox) bowler at the age of 14 by [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club) cricketer [Alex Bowell](/source/Alex_Bowell), who took him to the club's secretary, [Francis Bacon](/source/Francis_Bacon_(cricketer)),{{cite web|url=https://www.utilitabowl.com/cricket/news/hampshire-cricket-remembers-on-armistice-centenary/|title=Hampshire Cricket Remembers On Armistice Centenary|publisher=[Hampshire County Cricket Club](/source/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club)|date=10 November 2018|access-date=30 May 2026}} who engaged him on the staff in 1913.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/stuart-boyes-9191|title=Stuart Boyes|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=30 May 2026}} Boyes, who had been playing [club cricket](/source/club_cricket) in Southampton,{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000101/19220528/141/0011|title=Hampshire's New Bowler|first=Phil|last=Mead|author-link=Phil Mead|work=[Reynold's Newspaper](/source/Reynold's_News)|location=London|page=11|date=28 May 1922|access-date=30 May 2026|url-access=subscription|via=[British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)}} made his [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) debut for Hampshire against [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club) at [Bournemouth](/source/Dean_Park_Cricket_Ground) in the [1921 County Championship](/source/1921_County_Championship); he made five Championship appearances during his debut season,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6499/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Stuart Boyes|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2026|url-access=subscription}} with Boyes playing as an [amateur](/source/Amateurism_in_first-class_cricket).{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228559.html|title=Obituaries in 1974|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=30 May 2026}} Prior to the [1922 season](/source/1922_English_cricket_season), he had been employed at the [Ordnance Survey](/source/Ordnance_Survey) and was a serving member of the [Royal Engineers](/source/Royal_Engineers).{{sfn|Altham|Arlott|Eagar|Webber|1957|page=107}} From the [1922 season](/source/1922_English_cricket_season), he played as a paid professional, with Hampshire having paid half of his discharge fee from the army.{{sfn|Altham|Arlott|Eagar|Webber|1957|page=107}} He established himself in the Hampshire team in 1922, making 28 appearances and taking 94 wickets at a [bowling average](/source/bowling_average) of 18.82; he took [five wickets in an innings](/source/five_wicket_haul) on seven occasions, and [ten-wickets in a match](/source/ten-wicket_haul) twice.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6499/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Stuart Boyes|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=30 May 2026|url-access=subscription}} His presence in the team gave support to fellow spinner [Alec Kennedy](/source/Alec_Kennedy), which was said to have promoted an improvement in Kennedy's bowling.{{sfn|Altham|Arlott|Eagar|Webber|1957|page=107}} Boyes was a slow left-arm bowler with a high action, taking 1415 wickets for Hampshire. He took 100 wickets in a season three times, his best year being 111 at 26.75 in 1933. He twice took a hattrick, one of them when he took his career best figures of 9 for 57 against Somerset at Yeovil in 1938. With the bat he took 413 matches before making his maiden century, only three players in history have waited longer.{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Most_Matches_Before_Maiden_Century.html |title=Most Matches Before Maiden Century |access-date=26 October 2017 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204102/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Most_Matches_Before_Maiden_Century.html |url-status=dead }} He was an excellent close fielder and took 498 catches in first-class matches, many of them at short-leg.Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn and Peter Wynn-Thomas, 'Who's Who of Cricketers (London, 1984), p. 128 ===Tour selection=== His major overseas tour was with the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) to India and Ceylon in 1926/7. He took 56 wickets at 18.69 including 7-52 against a Europeans in the East XI at [Eden Gardens](/source/Eden_Gardens), Calcutta.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6499/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=Stuart Boyes bowling Season by Season at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12154.html|title=Europeans in the East vs. MCC at Cricket Archive, retrieved July 2015}} ==Coaching career== During the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), Boyes supervised junior coaching sessions at the County Ground.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYE0EAAAQBAJ|title=Cricket in the Second World War: The Grim Test|first=John|last=Broom|publisher=[Pen and Sword Books](/source/Pen_and_Sword_Books)|location=[Barnsley](/source/Barnsley)|year=2021|page=44|isbn=9781526780188|language=en}} Following the end of the war in 1945, Boyes was employed as a cricket coach at [Ampleforth College](/source/Ampleforth_College) from 1946 to 1963.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228559.html|title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1974|date=5 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=15 October 2024}} He died in Southampton in February 1973. ==Personal life and death== His brother, [Ken](/source/Ken_Boyes_(footballer%2C_born_1895)), was a professional [footballer](/source/association_football) with [Southampton](/source/Southampton_F.C.) and [Bristol Rovers](/source/Bristol_Rovers_F.C.), as well as a member of Hampshire's ground staff.{{cite book|title=The Alphabet of the Saints|last=Holley|first=Duncan|author2=Chalk, Gary|publisher=ACL & Polar Publishing|year=1992|isbn=0-9514862-3-3|page=42}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyes, Stuart}} Category:1899 births Category:Cricketers from Southampton Category:1973 deaths Category:English cricketers Category:Hampshire cricketers Category:London Counties cricketers Category:Players cricketers Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 Category:20th-century English sportsmen Category:Royal Engineers soldiers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Stuart Boyes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Boyes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Boyes?action=history)). 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