Algernon Marsham

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Algernon James Bullock Marsham (14 August 1919 – 11 February 2004) was an English cricketer.

Marsham played in 17 first-class cricket matches between 1939 and 1947 as a left-handed batsman and a right arm leg break bowler.{{cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/17377.html|title=Algernon Marsham player profile|publisher=Cricinfo|accessdate=23 July 2008}} He was the last member of the famous Marsham family, which included his father C. H. B. Marsham and grandfather C. D. B. Marsham, to play cricket for Kent.{{cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/156031.html|title=Obituaries in 2004 (K-O)|work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|accessdate=23 July 2008}}

Marsham was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. During World War II he was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was for some time a prisoner of war in Germany.{{cite book |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |publisher=Genealogical Books |location=Wilmington, Delaware |year=2003 |volume=3 |page=3387}}