Lieut-Col Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes (d.1924)

Post date: Jan 28, 2021 8:35:11 PM

My thanks to Ian Lambert of Kent Cricket Heritage Trust for pointing out the association of Lieut-Col Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes with Wateringbury.

Lieut-Col Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes, 10th Baronet, died at the Orpines on 19 October 1924, aged 72. The Orpines was up for sale in 1919 after the death of Augustus Leney (1915) and the decision of the Leney Board to sell the property, owned by the Leney brewery.

He had been born in Devon and served in the army from 1874 to 1895 and was High Sheriff of co Kildare.in 1902.

Apart from army cricket he played six 1st class matches, as a batsman and wicket keeper, which included Essex and Middlesex.

Borrowes followed the Leney's at Orpines and both had a keen interest in cricket and Orpines was the site of a cricket pitch up and pavilion until WW2.