{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Granger Boston | image = | fullname = Granger Farwell Boston | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|5|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Liverpool, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|2|4|1921|5|24|df=yes}} | death_place = Marylebone, London, England | batting = | bowling = | role =
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| date = 10 April 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9874.html Cricinfo }} '''Granger Farwell Boston''' (24 May 1921 – 4 February 1958) was an English cricketer and politician.
Boston was born in Liverpool. After serving in the Second World War from 1939 to 1943 (when he was invalided out),<ref name="Chronicle">{{cite news |title=Mr. G.F. Boston found dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chronicle/133377849/ |access-date=13 October 2023 |work=Chronicle |date=8 February 1958 |p=16}}</ref> he read history at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a third in 1947.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cambridge Tripos Results: Lists of Awards and Prizes |work=The Times |issue=1677 |date=21 June 1947 |page=314}}</ref> He played three first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1946.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9874.html |title=Granger Boston |accessdate=10 April 2017 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> Upon graduation he lectured at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, taught history at Clifton College and Oundle School, and was latterly a director of a tannery in Runcorn.<ref name="Chronicle"/>
Boston was the Conservative Party candidate for Gloucestershire West in the 1950 general election and for Crewe in the 1955 general election. He killed himself with a shotgun at his London apartment in 1958.<ref name="Chronicle"/>
==See also== * List of Cambridge University Cricket Club players
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==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=9874}}
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