Background
Wells was born at Penshurst Place in Kent.
Wells was born at Penshurst Place in Kent.
An inheritance allowed them to acquire a shop selling china and sporting goods, although it failed to prosper: the stock was old, and the location poor. earned a meagre income, but little of it came from the shop. Joseph also received unreliable earnings from playing professional cricket for the Kent county team Payment for skilled bowlers and batsmen came from voluntary donations after the matches, or from small payments from the clubs where the matches were played. was the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls in a first-class cricket match: in 1862 he dismissed Sussex"s James Dean, Spencer Leigh, Charles Ellis and Richard Fillery with successive balls. died at Liss in Hampshire.