Henry John Enthoven (4 June 1903 – 29 June 1975) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er who was born in

Cartagena, Spain Cartagena () is a Spanish city belonging to the Region of Murcia. As of January 2018, it has a population of 218,943 inhabitants. The city lies in a natural harbor of the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Cartage ...

, and was educated at

Harrow School Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner an ...

and

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

. He played in 123 first-class matches for

Middlesex County Cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ...

, as a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium bowler between 1923 and 1936, scoring 4478 runs and taking 100 wickets. He shared the county captaincy with

Nigel Haig Nigel Esme Haig (12 December 1887 – 27 October 1966) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and England. He was the son of Arthur Balfour Haig. Tall, stringy and deceptively frail in appearance, Haig played regularly from 19 ...

in 1933 and 1934. He later served as the club treasurer. He died in

Kensington, London Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensing ...

aged 72.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Enthoven, Tom 1903 births 1975 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Cambridge University cricketers Cambridge University cricket captains English cricketers Free Foresters cricketers Gentlemen cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Middlesex cricketers Middlesex cricket captains People educated at Harrow School Sportspeople from Cartagena, Spain 20th-century English sportsmen