Brian Kenneth Castor was a Guyanese

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

-born English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...

. He was born in Mahaica and died in Maida Hill.

Castor made one first-class appearance for Essex during the 1932 season, in a game against Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...

. In the single innings in which Castor played, he put on thirteen runs before being bowled out. Two years previously Castor had lined up for Essex against Sir J. Cahn's

Julien Cahn

Sir Julien Cahn, 1st Baronet was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and supporter of cricket.-His cricket XI:...

 XI.

He was secretary of Essex from 1930-46 and of Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

 from 1947-57. Of his time at Surrey, David Lemmon wrote:

He was firm but kind to staff and players and active and influential throughout the game. He was rather gruff in manner, but there was great humour in the man as evidenced by his public address announcements to the pigeons who had invaded the outfield. Booming over the loudspeaker would come the order: "Go away, you pigeons. Go to Lord's!'

During World War II

World War II

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 , he was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese prisoner-of-war from 1942 to 1945.

External links

• Brian Castor at Cricket Archive