Arthur Curle

Arthur Charles Curle (27 July 1895 – 2 February 1966) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in three matches for Warwickshire in 1920 and a single game for Rhodesia in 1922–23.^[1] He was born at Milverton, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and died at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Curle was the third of four brothers who all played cricket to a good standard, his older brother Gerald Curle appearing for Warwickshire in 1913.^[1] He was a dashing left-handed middle-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler for Leamington Cricket Club, and appeared in three Warwickshire matches in the middle of the 1920 season, scoring 40 in his first first-class innings.^[2] Curle went to Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia, to work and in 1923 made a single appearance for the Rhodesia cricket team against Transvaal, scoring 34 and 8.^[3] He did not play first-class cricket after that, although he appeared for Leamington in club cricket in 1928.

A newspaper report from 1926 states that Curle was the assistant paymaster of the Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesian Railways; the report describes the funeral in Bulawayo of his first wife, the former Mollie Roberts, who had arrived in Rhodesia only a few months earlier, had been ill since her arrival and had then died at the age of 28.^[4]

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