James Spens (cricketer)

MajorGeneral James Spens CB CMG was an English cricketer and officer in the British Army. Spens began playing cricket whilst at school, and after joining the Army played for Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club in the 1880s. He briefly returned to firstclass cricket in 189798, again for Hampshire. During the Second Boer War, he led an infantry battalion and a mobile column, then later commanded a military district in India and a Territorial division in the United Kingdom. He retired shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, when he returned to service, commanding the 12th Division, then a training depot and a military district in Egypt.

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