Patrick Kingsley
CountryEngland
FullnamePatrick Graham Toler Kingsley
Birth date26 May 1908
Birth placeCalcutta, Bengal, India
Death date24 August 1999 (aged 91)
Death placeYeovil, Somerset, England
BattingRight-handed
Club 1Oxford University
Year 11928–1930
Club 2Marylebone Cricket Club
Year 21931
Club 3Minor Counties
Year 31931
Columns1
Column 1First-class
Matches 147
Runs 12270
Bat avg 129.86
100s/50s 12/11
Top score 1176
Deliveries 1286
Wickets 14
Bowl avg 154.50
Fivefor 1
Tenfor 1
Best bowling 12/46
Catches/stumpings 141/–
Date12 April
Year2012
Sourcehttp://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16049.html cricinfo

Sir Patrick Graham Toler Kingsley (12 May 1908 – 24 August 1999) served the Duchy of Cornwall for more than 40 years.

Kingsley was born in Calcutta, Bengal, and educated at Winchester College where he played cricket for the school and was the only Wykehamist to have played five times in the annual match against Eton.[1] He then went up to New College, Oxford, where he played cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club for three seasons from 1928 to 1930 (captain in 1930), and then intermittently for amateur sides such as the Free Foresters.[2]

Kingsley was a right-handed batsman. He played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset in 1927 and thereafter to 1948 for Hertfordshire.

In 1930 Kingsley became assistant to Sir Clive Burn, Secretary and Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Cornwall; he succeeded Burn in that post in 1954 and served until 1972.[1]

He had been an army cadet at Winchester and subsequently joined the Territorial Army;[3] during World War II he served in the Queen’s Royal Regiment in Belgium and Germany.

Kingsley was appointed CVO in the New Year Honours of 1950[4] and knighted KCVO in 1962.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Sir Patrick Kingsley". No. 66656. October 1999. p. 25.
  2. ^ "Player Profile: Patrick Kingsley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. ^ No. 33710. 24 April 1931. p. 2649.
  4. ^ No. 38797. 30 December 1949. p. 5.
  5. ^ No. 42683. 25 May 1962. p. 4311.