John_Ireland_(cricketer)

John Ireland (cricketer)

John Ireland (cricketer)

English cricketer

Captain John Frederick Ireland (12 August 1888 – 16 October 1970) was an English amateur cricketer. Ireland was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium pace.

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Cricket

Ireland played cricket at Marlborough College where he was educated, captaining the Marlborough side in 1907.[1] He played for Cambridge University between 1908 and 1911, making 28 first-class appearances in total, 27 for the University and one for MCC in 1912.[1][2] He also played Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk between 1906 and 1911.[1]

A three-sport athlete, Ireland played cricket, hockey and golf while attending Trinity College, winning blues in his freshman year in both cricket and hockey.[3] He held the unusual record of captaining three Cambridge University teams in those games and was a triple blue.[4]

Ireland's uncle, Frederick Schomberg Ireland, also played cricket and made four first-class appearances between 1878–1887.[5] Ireland's brother-in-law, Eric Norman Spencer Crankshaw, made one first-class appearance in 1909.[6]

Life

Ireland was born 12 August 1888 in Port Louis, Mauritius,[2] the second son of George Hugh Ireland of Ireland Fraser & Co.,[7] Mauritius and his first wife, Margaret Guthrie Harvey, the daughter of John Harvey of Kent and Singapore.[8] He was the grandson of George Ireland, one of the founders of Ireland Fraser & Co., and the great-grandson of Walter Foggo Ireland, a Church of Scotland minister at the North Leith Parish Church within the Presbytery of Edinburgh.[9]

During WWI, Ireland was a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery deployed in France.[10] In September 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry while in command of a battery that came under heavy bombardment. [11]

Ireland married Philippa Sarah Bates, the daughter of Philip Bates, on 18 December 1917 at Holy Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea.[12]

Professionally, Ireland was a Director of Ireland Fraser, a company co-founded by his grandfather George Ireland, now called Ireland Blyth Limited, as well as Arbuthnot Latham & Co. and Mercantile Bank of India.[13]

Ireland died on 21 October 1970 at Uckfield in Sussex, England.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    John Ireland, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. [2]
    "ESPN cricinfo". ESPN cricinfo. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  3. [3]
    "University Sports, Famous "Blues"". London, England. The Observer. 24 July 1910.
  4. [4]
    J.F. Ireland (Uckfield). Kent and Sussex Courier, 30 October 1970, p8
  5. [5]
    Frederick Ireland, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  6. [6]
    "ESPN cricinfo". ESPN cricinfo. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  7. [7]
    Allister Macmillan (2000). Mauritius Illustrated: Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial Facts, Figures, & Resources. Maurititus: Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120615083. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  8. [8]
    Ireland, George Hugh Ireland (29 September 1884). "Marriages, Ireland - Harvey". St. James Gazette, London, England.
  9. [9]
    "The Dundee Courier". Dundee, Angus, Scotland. 14 February 1879. Deaths - At Blackheath Park, Kent, on the 9th inst., George Ireland, of Messrs. Ireland, Fraser, & Co., Mauritius, and eldest son of the late Rev. W. F. Ireland, D.D., minister of the parish of North Leith.
  10. [10]
    Ireland, John Frederick. "British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920".
  11. [11]
    The London Gazette, 14 September 1917, Supplement 30287, page 9574.
  12. [12]
    "London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932". London, England. 1917. p. 162. Retrieved 4 July 2018. Holy Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, London, England
  13. [13]
    Ireland, John Frederick. "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960". United Kingdom. Retrieved 4 July 2018. October 1926 and May 1947

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