Brian Kenneth Castor (21 October 1889 – 2 October 1979) was a British Guiana-born English

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er who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in Maida Hill. Castor made one first-class appearance for Essex during the 1932 season, in a game against

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. In the single innings in which Castor played, he put on thirteen runs before being bowled out. Two years previously Castor had lined up for Essex against Sir J. Cahn's XI. He was secretary of Essex from 1930–46 and of Surrey from 1947-57. Of his time at Surrey, David Lemmon wrote:

He was firm but kind to staff and players and active and influential throughout the game. He was rather gruff in manner, but there was great humour in the man as evidenced by his public address announcements to the pigeons who had invaded the outfield. Booming over the loudspeaker would come the order: "Go away, you pigeons. Go to Lord's!'

During

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, he was a Japanese prisoner-of-war from 1942 to 1945.

External links

Brian Castor
at Cricket Archive

References

*David Lemmon, ''The History of Surrey County Cricket Club'', Christopher Helm, 1989, , p252. {{DEFAULTSORT:Castor, Brian 1889 births 1979 deaths English cricketers Essex cricketers English cricket administrators 20th-century British businesspeople British people in British Guiana