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Full name | John Frederick Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port Louis, Mauritius | 12 August 1888||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 October 1970 Uckfield, Sussex, England | (aged 82)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm roundarm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Frederick Schomberg Ireland (uncle), Eric Norman Spencer Crankshaw (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1906–1911 | Suffolk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1908–1911 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1912 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 14 May 1908 Cambridge University v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 4 July 1912 MCC v Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 4 July 2018 |
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.
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]
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]
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.
Holy Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, London, England
October 1926 and May 1947