Arthur Barmby

{{Short description|English cricketer and soldier (1909 – 1976)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Arthur Barmby

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Arthur Geoffrey Barmby

| birth_date = 24 June 1909

| birth_place = West Ham, Essex, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|8|16|1909|6|24|df=yes}}

| death_place = Worthing, Sussex, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Left-handed

| bowling = Left-arm medium

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1943/44

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 0

| bat avg1 = 0.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 0

| deliveries1 = 222

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 64.00

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/64

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 4 January

| year = 2024

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-barmby-27009 Cricinfo

}}

Arthur Geoffrey Barmby (24 June 1909 – 16 August 1976) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Army.

Barmby was born at West Ham in June 1909. He was educated at St Paul's School, where he played for the school cricket team.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12647/all_teams.html|title=Teams Arthur Barmby played for|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}} He later served in the Second World War, being commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Artillery (RA) in September 1941.{{London Gazette|issue=35282|date=19 September 1941|page=5507|supp=y}} While serving in British India during the war, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians cricket team at Madras in the 1943–44 Madras Presidency Match.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12647/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Barmby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}} Batting once in the match from the lower-order, he was dismissed without scoring by K. S. Kannan. With his left-arm medium pace bowling, he took the wicket of M. Swaminathan for the cost of 64 runs from 37 overs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17400.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1943/44|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}

Barmby continued his service with the RA after the war in the Territorial Army (TA), for which he was decorated with the Territorial Decoration in March 1966, for twenty years' service in the TA.{{London Gazette|issue=43935|date=25 March 1966|page=3513|supp=y}} Having returned to England, Barmby lived in Chester with his wife and played club cricket for Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club, in addition to playing rugby union for Chester Rugby Club.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19760903/549/0028|title=Acknowledgements|work=Cheshire Observer|location=Chester|page=28|date=3 September 1976|access-date=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} By profession, he was an official in the insurance industry.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19690711/462/0023|title=Announcements|work=Cheshire Observer|location=Chester|page=23|date=11 July 1969|access-date=4 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} He died at Worthing in August 1976; he was survived by his second wife, with his first having died in 1969.