General Committee

Current Members of the Committee:

 

George M Kennedy CBE (Chairman)

 

Mark Baker White

Kent Committee from 2005,Management Board 2006-2010(disbanded),Ground Redevelopment Working Party 2006-2010(disbanded).  Member since 1989,previously Junior member 1972-78.  Direct Forbear founded modern Club in 1870.  Partner in family farming and commercial Business at Street End that has just celebrated 151 years of Business.  Playing Member of MCC, Band of Brothers, Free Foresters, Cross Arrows Cricket Clubs, Hoppers Tie Club.  Benevolent Board of Band of Brothers.  Two Representative Tours with MCC.  Played first team League Cricket for Sutton in Premier Surrey League and Gore Court in Kent League.  Chairman Haileybury Hermits CC and Committee Shepway Stragglers CC.  Kent Country Landowners Association Committee 2001-date.  National Central Policy Committee for Agriculture and Land Use for CLA since 2009.  Educated at Haileybury College and RAC,Cirencester.  U19 Cricket and Rugby for Herts.

Interests: Most Sport ,particularly skiing,History and Current Affairs,Agricultue and the countryside.

Previously worked as a Sportswear buyer for a large chain of Sports Shops and ran all the Ancillary Services in the Palace of Westminster before working in Oman for two years,setting up an Ancillary Services Omani/British Company of Brengreen Holdings.

 

Paul Box-Grainger

 

Rev. Canon Chris Byers (Supporters' Club)

I was first introduced to Kent during basic training with The Buffs in Canterbury before a commission in the Royal Hampshire Regiment and service in Central Africa.  Oxford University at least taught me how to bowl while playing cricket for Jesus College.  Ordained in 1960 I served in parishes in South London and was an Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral.  I played cricket for Chistlehurst and West Kent for forty years in the nationwide Church Times Cup Competition.  A member of Kent since the 1980's and President of the Supporters' Club for five years, I have served as their co-opted member on this committee since 2008.  I have two sons, both of whom have proved to be better cricketers than their father, and five grandchildren.  I am married to Estelle.

 

 

 

John Clark

 

Richard Collins

Retired Consultant Surgeon and former Senior Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Hon. Medical Officer to Kent CCC from 1982 to 2011. Life Member of Kent CCC. Member of Committee since 1999, Club President in 2005. Member of Ground Development sub-Committee.Chaired  Kent Cricket Appeal 2000, raising over £100,000. Played Club Cricket for Buckhurst Hill CC in Essex before moving to live and work in Kent in 1976. Member of MCC since 1964, represented them against Canada at Lords in 1969.

 

Graham Johnson (Chairman of Cricket)

 

Ben Moorhead

 

Peter Morgan

 

Simon Philip (Hon. Treasurer)

Simon is a Life Member of the Club.  He played for St Lawrence & Highland Court CC for 15 years and was also the Club’s Treasurer.  He is also a Member of several leading wandering cricket clubs, including MCC.  Simon was formerly a partner in two major international accounting firms, latterly Deloitte.  He was Chief Executive of a Deloitte subsidiary company and author of several books on personal finance.  He is currently a Trustee of The Allergy Research Foundation and The Kent Trust for Youth Sport.  He became Honorary Treasurer on 1^st September 2009.

 

Jonathan Rice

 

Derek Taylor

 

Chris Swadkin (Kent Cricket Board)