Alan Cornwall (cricketer)

Alan Edward Cripps Cornwall (12 August 1898 – 26 February 1984) was an English cricketer – a right-handed batsman who played for Gloucestershire – and an educationalist.

For the Archdeacon of Cheltenham, see Alan Cornwall (priest).

Life and teaching

Cornwall was born in Coleford, Gloucestershire (then in the Monmouth registration district), where his father, Alan Whitmore Cornwall was Vicar.

Cornwall attended Marlborough College and subsequently returned to teach history there.[1] He acted as a housemaster at Marlborough College for several decades, and as an officer of the Marlborough College Contingent of the Junior Training Corps in the Second World War.[2] In February 1938 he headed a party of 30 public schoolboys on a visit to New Zealand.[3]

Alan Cornwall never married. His younger brother, Nigel Cornwall, became a colonial bishop in the Anglican Church. Alan Cornwall died in retirement at Lustleigh, Devon in 1984.

Cricketing

Cornwall gained fame as a schoolboy batsman by scoring three consecutive centuries for Marlborough College.[4] He made a single first-class appearance for Gloucestershire, during the 1920 season, playing against Leicestershire. From the lower-middle order, he scored three runs in the first innings in which he batted, and two runs in the second. He was also a player of hockey and authored a chapter of a book on the subject.[5]

References
  1. One student, writing of 1936, described him as a "one of my more progressive teachers..... I came to like Mr. Cornwall's thought-provoking approach." Fritz Kempner: Looking Back (2006) Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  2. London Gazette, 29 February 1944 Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. Papers Past Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. Sporting Life, 7 October 1916. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. D. S. Milford: Hockey. Modern Sports series (London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1943 [1938]), p. 99 ff. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
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