Herbert Blagrave

Herbert Henry Gratwicke Blagrave (3 March 1899 – 4 July 1981) was an English cricketer and racehorse trainer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire.

He was born at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, the son of John Gratwicke Blagrave and his wife, Fanny Julia (formerly Somerset), and died at Beckhampton near Marlborough. He was a descendant of the Blagraves of Calcot Park in Berkshire.

Blagrave made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1922 season, against Derbyshire. From the lower order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 12 runs in the second.

Later in life Blagrave had some success as an owner and trainer of racehorses, sending out Private Walk to win consecutive editions of the Old Newton Cup.[1] He was also the president of Southampton Football Club.[2]

In 1964 he bought the manor of Linkenholt in Hampshire. He died without an heir, so he founded the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust, with orders that the money should be spent on sick children, the elderly and injured jockeys.