{{short description|English cricketer, educator and Royal Air Force officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Cecil Esdaile Winter | birth_date = 1 September 1879 | birth_place = Deal, Kent, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|7|20|1879|9|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Hove, Sussex, England | nickname = | family = William Winter (father)<br>Gerald Winter (brother)<br>Arthur Winter (uncle) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1901–1902 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 10 | runs1 = 53 | bat avg1 = 6.62 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 18 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 7/11 | date = 14 January | year = 2022 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23116.html Cricinfo }}
'''Cecil Esdaile Winter''' (1 September 1879 — 20 July 1964) was an English first-class cricketer, educator and Royal Air Force officer.
The son of the cricketer William Winter, he was born at Deal in September 1879. He was educated at Uppingham School, where he played for the school cricket team,<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228442.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1964|work=Cricinfo |date=4 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=2022-01-14|url-access=subscription}}</ref> before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=6|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=542|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri056univuoft|language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1901 and 1902.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33994/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Cecil Winter|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-14|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing in the Cambridge side as a wicket-keeper, in this capacity Winter took seven catches and made eleven stumpings. As a batsman, he scored 53 runs at an average of 6.62, with a highest score of 18.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33994/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Cecil Winter|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-14|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
After graduating from Cambridge, Winter began a career in education and prior the First World War he taught at a number of schools in the South East England.<ref name="BOOK"/> He served in the First World War and was commissioned in the closing stages of the war as a temporary second lieutenant in the nascent Royal Air Force.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30860|date=23 August 1918|page=9834}}</ref> He returned to education following the war and was subsequently appointed headmaster at Northaw Place School.<ref name="BOOK"/> Winter died at Hove in July 1964.<ref name="OBIT"/> His brother, Gerald, was also a first-class cricketer, as was his uncle Arthur Winter.
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