Sporting Achievements
Whilst at Clifton, Keigwin partnered AEJ Collins in the school racquets pair (he was also the school racquets captain) and he captained the school cricket XI for 1902-3 when Collins also played.
In addition to playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club at cricket, he also represented Cambridge University at cricket, rackets, football and hockey. He played hockey for Essex and England, and cricket and tennis for Gloucestershire. He also played for the Free Foresters against the Netherlands cricket XI in the 1920s, although he did not appear for Free Foresters at first-class level.
After the First World War, as a result of Keigwin's interest in Danish cricket, the game in Denmark picked up whilst he lived there and British cricket teams began visiting Denmark more frequently - these teams included the MCC, Leicestershire, Incogniti, Gentlemen of Worcestershire and Sir Julien Cahn's XI.
Keigwin's best bowling figures in first-class cricket were 8/79 against Sussex in 1903. A year later, he scored his only first-class hundred, for Cambridge against Warwickshire.
His brothers, Herbert Keigwin and Henry Keigwin both also played first-class cricket.
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