Stephen Botting

Stephen Hovey Botting was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was a right-handed batter who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Higham.
Botting played club cricket regularly at Cobham. He made his first-class debut for Kent against Sussex in 1867 at Ashford Road, Eastbourne in a match arranged by players rather than officials of either club. He made a second first-class appearance for Kent against the same opposition at the County Ground, Hove, in 1875.
Botting worked as a labourer and gardener throughout his life, and played cricket as a professional. He married Jane Stevens in 1870, and the couple had 13 children. He died at Shorne, near Gravesend, Kent on 23 January 1927, aged 81.