Arthur Jaques

Arthur Jaques was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Having initially played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club on a tour of the West Indies in early 1913, Jaques played first-class cricket in the County Championship for Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1913 and 1914, forming a successful bowling partnership with Alec Kennedy. In his two seasons playing for Hampshire, he took 168 wickets and was due to inherit the captaincy for the 1915 season, however the outbreak of the First World War meant he would never get the opportunity to captain Hampshire. Jaques would serve in the war with the West Yorkshire Regiment and was subsequently killed in action in September 1915 at the Battle of Loos.²