Court was wicket-keeper who batted right-handed.
His family returned to England during Court's childhood, his father, who had been born at Swalecliffe and farmed at Wrotham before emigrating, resumed farming near Maidstone in Kent.
[2] A club cricketer for sides including The Mote and Bearsted,[2] Court made a single first-class cricket appearance for Kent against Sussex in 1867 at Hove, scoring 11 runs and making a duck in his two innings.
[3] He played a non-first-class match for the Gentlemen of Kent on the same ground immediately after his first-class debut.
He married Charlotte Lovett; the couple had two sons.