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Geoffrey Henry Barrington Chance CBE (16 December 1893 – 11 July 1987) was an English first-class cricketer .
The son of Ernest Chance, he was born in December 1893 at Burghfield, Berkshire .[1] He was educated at Eton College , where he played for the college cricket team in his final year. In his first match for Eton, against the Marylebone Cricket Club , he took figures of 10 for 36. His wickets included experienced first-class batsman Edward Dowson , William Findlay , Frank Phillips and Peter Randall Johnson . The Times described his bowling for Eton in their match against Winchester College as "Chance made good use of his wicket; he bowls fast to medium in pace over the wicket; he kept a length and made the ball get up quickly and go away just a little."[2] His skills as a cricketer were noted by Berkshire , with him playing minor counties cricket for the county in 1912 and 1913, making three appearances in the Minor Counties Championship .[3] He played for Hampshire in 1913, making a single appearance against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's .[4] His only appearance for Hampshire was to be an unsuccessful one, with Chance being dismissed in Hampshire's first-innings without scoring by Frank Tarrant , while across the match he bowled nine wicketless overs .[5]
Chance served in the British Army during the First World War , being commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment ) in October 1914.[6] [7] He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1915,[8] and by May 1916 he was serving with the Machine Gun Corps .[9] He was made a temporary captain in April 1917,[10] before being made a temporary major in February 1918.[11] In September 1918 he was seconded to become an instructor at the Small Arms School Corps at Hythe, Kent .[12] Two months later he ceased to hold this position.[13] Following the war, Chance returned to play first-class cricket, making one appearance for the MCC against Scotland at Lord's in 1923.[4] He was later made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1962 Birthday Honours for political and public service in Wiltshire .[14] Chance served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1965.[15] In 1984, at the age of 90, he became the oldest person to pass their driving test in the United Kingdom.[16] He died in July 1987 at Minety, Wiltshire ; at the time of his death he was one of the few surviving cricketers to have played first-class cricket before the First World War.[2]
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^ Crisp, Frederick Arthur; Howard, Joseph Jackson, eds. (1895). Visitation of England and Wales . Vol. 3. Privately printed. p. 63.
^ a b "Wisden - Obituaries in 1987" . ESPNcricinfo. 5 December 2005. Retrieved 28 December 2021 .
^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Geoffrey Chance" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 December 2021 .
^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Chance" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 December 2021 .
^ "Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire, 1913" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 December 2021 .
^ "No. 28935" . The London Gazette . 13 October 1914. p. 8139.
^ "No. 29363" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 November 1915. p. 11158.
^ "No. 29591" . The London Gazette . 23 May 1916. p. 5068.
^ "No. 29909" . The London Gazette . 19 January 1917. p. 758.
^ "No. 30680" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 May 1918. p. 5684.
^ "No. 31018" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 November 1918. p. 13589.
^ "No. 30956" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 October 1918. p. 12225.
^ "No. 31079" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 December 1918. p. 15017.
^ "No. 42683" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 May 1962. p. 4316.
^ "No. 43610" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 March 1965. p. 3049.
^ Barwell, Mike (1990). The Alternative Book of Records . Peter Haddock. p. 15. ISBN 9780710505989 .
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