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| Full name | James Stewart Souter | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1923-02-13)13 February 1923 Kanpur, United Provinces, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 October 1999(1999-10-21) (aged 76) St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 1 July 2020 | |||||||||||||||
James Stewart Souter (13 February 1923 – 21 October 1999) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of the Scottish colonial administrator Sir Edward Souter, he was born at Kanpur in British India. He was educated in England at Haileybury, before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1942. His studies at Oxford were interrupted by the ongoing Second World War, in which he served in the latter stages with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR), enlisting as a pilot officer in April 1944. He served with the RAFVR until 1948, the year in which he was promoted to flying officer. He returned to Brasenose College in 1948, playing three first-class cricket matches for Oxford University against the Free Foresters, Lancashire and Middlesex in 1948. He scored 47 runs in his three matches, with a high score of 30. His brother, Ian, was killed in action during the war. He married Mary Atkinson at The Strand, London in 1948. Souter died in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex on 21 October 1999, at the age of 76.
References
- Haileybury Register. Haileybury and Imperial Service College. 1961. p. 399.
- "Brazen Notes" (PDF). www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- "No. 36514". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 May 1944. p. 2235.
- "No. 38188". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 January 1948. p. 647.
- "First-Class Matches played by James Souter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by James Souter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- "Souter, Ian Matheson". www.twgpp.org. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- "Souter – Atkinson wedding announcement". Newspaper Index Cards, 1790–1976. 14 January 1948. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- "James Souter". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2022.