Batting style Right-handed Role Cricket Player 1919 Yorkshire | 1935 Minor Counties Bowling style Right-arm fast Education Eton College | |
Full name Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable Born 21 December 1890 ( 1890-12-21 ) Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England 1926–1927 Marylebone Cricket Club Name Raleigh Chichester-Constable Died 1963, Burton Constable, United Kingdom | ||
Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable (21 December 1890 – 26 May 1963) was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire, MCC and the Minor Counties, in an intermittent career which spanned sixteen years from 1919 to 1935.
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Career
Born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, he changed his surname from Chichester to Chichester-Constable in January 1895.
A right-handed batsman and right arm fast bowler, he played in 24 first-class matches, scoring a total of 152 runs at 8.94, with a top score of 47 not out, and he took 4 wickets at 60.74. His only match for Yorkshire came in the game against Essex at The Circle, Kingston upon Hull, in July 1919. Batting at number 11 he scored a duck in Yorkshire's first innings of 241, and bowled four overs without success for six runs, as Essex were beaten by an innings and 58 runs.
He played for the Army against the Navy in a first-class match in 1921, taking a career best 2 for 42 as the Army won by 10 wickets, and he took 1 for 35 for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenners two years later.
The bulk of his first class experience came on a five-month winter tour of India undertaken by the Marylebone Cricket Club. in 1926/27. Chichester-Constable played against the Muslims and Parsees, the Hindus and The Rest, The Europeans, Rawalpindi, the Army, Southern Punjab, Northern Punjab, Rajputana and Bombay Baroda & Central India Railways, the Europeans and Parsees, the Hindus and Muslims, Rangoon Gymkhana, Burma, an Indian XI, Madras, the Ceylonese, Aligarh University Past and Present and Patiala.
He reappeared for two more matches in 1935, playing for the Minor Counties against both Oxford University and Cambridge University.
He became a farmer and briefly entered politics as an Independent candidate at the Holderness by-election, 1939.
Chichester-Constable died in May 1963 in Burton Constable, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Military career
Chichester-Constable was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), and served with the 2nd Battalion during the First World War, remaining in the army during the interwar period, and commanding the 46th Division's 139th Brigade from 1940 to 1943 during the Second World War.