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Full name
  
Stanley Long Amor

Role
  
Cricket Player

Name
  
Stanley Amor

1908-30
  
Somerset

Batting style
  
Right-hand batsman


Stanley Amor

Born
  
22 July 1887 (
1887-07-22
)
Bath, England

First-class debut
  
11 May 1908 Somerset v Lancashire

Last First-class
  
11 July 1930 Somerset v Yorkshire

Died
  
August 7, 1965, England, United Kingdom

Stanley Long Amor, born at Bath, Somerset on 22 July 1887 and died at Bath on 7 August 1965, played first-class cricket for Somerset irregularly for a period of more than 20 years.

A tail-end batsman and wicketkeeper, Amor played exactly half of his 26 first-class matches for Somerset in games at Bath, and his first-class career never took him further north than Worcester, though that visit brought him his highest first-class score of 21.

Primarily, Amor was a club cricketer, acting as captain and wicketkeeper for Bath Cricket Club from 1914 to 1950, and president and chairman after that. That he might have made the grade at a higher level of cricket is suggested by the fact that, in the 1922 and 1923 seasons, he figured in late-season festival cricket at Eastbourne and Hastings, playing for South v North, for the Royal Air Force (Ex-Service) side against the Rest of England, and for The Rest against Lord Cowdray's XI, alongside notable cricketing names such as Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley, Percy Fender and the Gilligans.

He was awarded the OBE.

References

Stanley Amor Wikipedia