[2] His older brother, Alexander Weston Jarvis, was Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1886 to 1892.
A right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional slow underarm bowler, he was most successful in his first season, when he averaged 25 with the bat and made his top score of 47.
[4] He made a single appearance for Marylebone Cricket Club in 1879 and played two final first-class games for amateur sides in the 1880s.
As an athlete, he won Blues for the hurdles in 1878, 1879 and 1880 and he also represented Cambridge in the annual association football match against Oxford University in 1879.
In the First World War, he served as a major in the 3rd County of London Yeomanry, and was involved in fighting in Egypt and Palestine.