Jack Board was a wicketkeeper and a right-handed batsman who started out as a tail-ender but developed into a useful player who often opened the innings for his county, Gloucestershire.

Picked by W. G. Grace out of Bristol club cricket for the South v North match at Lord's in 1891, Board went straight into the Gloucestershire side afterwards and stayed there for 20 years.

His first wife died in 1907 and in 1921 he married a Mrs Young, daughter of Mr Matthews, a retired water bailiff of Oxford.

[4] From 1910, he went each winter to New Zealand, where he coached and played for Hawke's Bay, returning each English summer for a few games for Gloucestershire.

It was on the return trip from South Africa to England in 1924 aboard the Kenilworth Castle that he had a heart attack and died.