Ronald_Lee_(cricketer)

Ronald Lee (cricketer)

Ronald Lee (cricketer)

English cricketer and military officer


Ronald Outram Lee (26 December 1876 12 March 1940) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in both the British Army and the British Indian Army, as well as playing first-class cricket while serving in British India.

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Lee was born at Thame in December 1876 to Dr Herbert Grove Lee. He was educated at Haileybury College, before going up to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1] He played minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire on three occasions during his summer break, playing twice in the 1896 Minor Counties Championship and once in the 1899 Minor Counties Championship.[2] While at Cambridge he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Surrey at The Oval in 1899.[3] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed in the Cambridge first-innings without scoring by Bill Brockwell. With his right-arm fast bowling , he took 3 wickets in the match to finish with match figures of 3 for 79.[4] He qualified with his M.B. in 1906, and began working as a surgeon at house physician Middlesex Hospital.[1] He served throughout the First World War with the Royal Army Medical Corps.[1] From 1920 until his death in March 1940, he practiced medicine at Thame Hospital in Thame.[1]


References

  1. Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-1108036122.
  2. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ronald Lee". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  3. "First-Class Matches played by Edward Twiss". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. "Surrey v Cambridge University, 1899". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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