Colonel Charles John Coventry CB (26 February 1867 – 2 June 1929) was a British Army officer and an amateur cricketer who played in two retrospectively-recognised Test matches for England in 1889.

[1] He joined the Worcestershire Militia, and subsequently served with the Bechuanaland Police and British South Africa Company.

[citation needed] When the English tour to South Africa in 1888–89 was being put together, because the South Africans were considered weak, weaker players were selected for the English team.

[6] Coventry married, in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, on 16 January 1900, Lily Whitehouse, younger daughter of Mr. FitzHugh Whitehouse, of Newport, USA.

[7] His younger son Francis briefly succeeded as 12th Earl of Coventry.