Francis Bullock-Marsham

Colonel Francis William Bullock-Marsham DSO MC (13 July 1883 – 22 December 1971) was a senior officer in the British Army and an English amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club and one for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), both in 1905.[1] Part of the Marsham family that were involved with Kent County Cricket Club. He was born in Bicester and died in Maidstone.[1][2]

Bullock-Marsham was educated at Eton College until 1901. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 7th (Militia) battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 26 August 1901,[3] and promoted to a lieutenant on 1 July 1902.[4] Between 1932 and 1936 Bullock-Marsham commanded the 1st Cavalry Brigade with the temporary rank of Brigadier. He was an aide-de-camp to three British monarchs, George V, Edward VII and George VI from 1935 to 1938.[5]

He married on 19 April 1922 Finovola Marianne Eleanor Maclean, widow of Captain Roger Cordy-Simpson.[6]

References

1. Lewis P For Kent and Country, Brighton: Reveille Press
2. Francis Marsham, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
3. "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 112.
4. Hart′s Army list, 1903
5. "Brigadier Francis William Bullock-Marsham". The Times. No. 58358. London. 23 December 1971. p. 12.
6. "Fitzroy Maclean". The West Kent (the Queen's Own) yeomanry. Retrieved 2020-12-04.