Given the question: Facts: - lastyear: 1822 - source: http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/33/33887/33887.html cricketarchive - fivefor: 0 - country: england - bowling: unknown arm , fast -lrb- roundarm -rrb- - birth date: 1778 - lastfor: kent - debutyear: 1806 - deliveries: balls unknown - columns: 1 - lastagainst: marylebone cricket club - death date: 5 may 1852 1778 - s/s: 0/0 - year: 1806 -- 1822 2009 - name: john willes - death place: staunton , gloucestershire , england - birth place: headcorn , kent , england - date: 1778 - type: first-class - debutdate: 7 july - column: first-class cricket - catches/stumpings: 2 / -- - debutagainst: players - fullname: john willes - tenfor: 0 - lastdate: 15 july - matches: 5 - debutfor: gentlemen - runs: 9 - wickets: 6 - club: kent Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john willes -lrb- cricketer -rrb- .
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john willes -lrb- 1778 in headcorn , kent -- 5 august 1852 in staunton , gloucester -rrb- was an english cricketer who , though he made only five known first-class appearances , had a significant impact on the game 's history and development .willes played for kent county cricket teams and was a fast underarm or , when he could get away with it , roundarm bowler .willes played for the gentlemen in the inaugural and second gentlemen v players matches in 1806 .as arthur haygarth says in '' scores & biographies '' , john willes was : '' ... the originator , or rather the reviver , of round-armed bowling , and is said -lrb- though his daughter has never heard of the fact -rrb- to have caught the idea from seeing his sister so deliver the ball to him in practice when he was unwell .the '' cricket field '' , however , speaking through william beldham , states : '' willes was not the inventor of that kind of round bowling -- he only revived what was forgotten or new to the young folk '' .whether he bowled round in the present match -lrb- i.e. , in 1806 -rrb- , can not now be said , as this kind of delivery was not tolerated till about 1827 , when it was permanently established by william lillywhite , jem broadbridge and mr george t knight .in the mcc v kent match on 15 july 1822 , mr willes commenced playing for his county but , being '' no-balled '' , he threw down the ball in high dudgeon , left the ground immediately , and -lrb- it is said -rrb- never played again .mr willes was also a great sportsman , and kept a pack of hounds at sutton .this place , shortly before his death , he was obliged to leave , and he removed to staunton , near gloucester , where he died , '' in fearfully reduced circumstances '' on 5 august 1852 , aged 74 .no tombstone has been erected to his memory '' .in fact , as beldham confirmed , roundarm bowling was first devised back in hambledon days by the wily tom walker but he was barred from using it in matches by the patrons of the day , including george finch , 9th earl of...