Died 28 October 1935 | ||
Henry Mellor Braybrooke (11 February 1869 – 28 October 1935) was an English colonial administrator in Sri Lanka and a cricketer who played first-class cricket in England for Cambridge University, Kent and an unofficial England XI between 1891 and 1899. He was born at Kandy in Sri Lanka and died at Hawkhurst in Kent.
Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Braybrooke was picked as a right-handed batsman for six first-class matches for the Cambridge University side in 1891, but was not successful and failed to win a Blue. He appeared in a couple of games for Kent in 1891 and then played fairly regularly as an opening batsman for the county in 1892, his most successful season. His best innings was a score of 53 in the match against Somerset at Taunton.
His cricket after 1892 was very limited: a single match in 1893 and four in 1899, including a game at Eastbourne for an "England XI" against the Australians in which every other player was a Test cricketer. Batting low in the order in his first first-class match for six years, he was duly out for 0 in each innings.
During the First World War, Braybrooke was the commandant of a military hospital at Hawkhurst in Kent, and in 1919 he was awarded the MBE for his service.