Charles Joseph Harenc (3 August 1811 – 14 December 1877) was an English lawyer and amateur cricketer in the mid-19th century.
Harenc was born in 1811 at Foots Cray in Kent,[2] the second son of Benjamin Harenc who owned Foots Cray Place,[3][4] an 18th-century neo-Palladian house built in the style of the Villa Rotunda which had been purchased by Charles' grandfather, also named Benjamin, in 1772.
[5][6][7] Harenc's father was an East India Company merchant and a keen cricketer, playing for Prince's Plain, a club which preceded the West Kent club; his mother Sophia was a member of the Berens family which was closely associated with cricket; his first cousins Richard and Henry Berens both played first-class matches for the Gentlemen of Kent.
[3][10] Harenc is known to have played for the Gentlemen of Kent in non-first-class matches as early as 1827, whilst he was still at school.
[3][10] He married Ann Maria Powis at Cookham in Berkshire in 1868 and died in December 1877 at Bedford aged 66.