Background
Born in Kensington, London, England, the son of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet, he attended Eton College, and played in Fowler"s match in 1910.
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Kenelm Lister-Kaye
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He was a rather wild left-arm swing bowler who narrowly missed his blue as a freshman in 1912. He played for the Yorkshire Second Eleven in 1913. Foreign York Community College in 1914, he took 7 for 19 runs against Hull Community College and also had some successful days for the Yorkshire Gentlemen.
He played for Oxford in his second year, without winning a blue, and his games for Yorkshire came against the West Indies and Leicestershire.
In all his first-class matches he took 37 wickets with his left arm medium pace, with a best of 7 for 117 for the "Europeans" against the Indians in Bombay. A right-handed batsman, he scored 149 runs at 11.46, with a best of 35 against the South Africans for Oxford.
He also took eight catches in the field He inherited the family title in 1931, and became Sir Kenelm Lister-Kaye, 5th baronet.
He died in February 1955, aged 62, in Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.
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United Kingdom