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Richard Swann Swann-Mason OBE (4 March 1871 – 21 February 1942) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

Swann-Mason was born in March 1871 at Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire. He was educated at The Perse School, before graduating as a non-collegiate graduate from the University of Cambridge. After graduating, he became a clergyman in the Anglican Church. He played minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 1896–1908, making 41 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. He also played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), debuting in 1909 against Leicestershire at Lord's. Swann-Mason made two further first-class appearances for the MCC, against Leicestershire in 1910, and Cambridge University in 1914. He scored 67 runs in his three first-class matches, with a high score of 25.

He served as a chaplain in the Royal Navy during the First World War, surviving the sinking of HMS Ocean in 1915. For his services during the war, he was made an OBE in the 1919 New Year Honours. Following the war, he served as the vicar of Christ Church, Albany Street until his death at St Pancras in February 1942.

References

1. ^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1942". ESPNcricinfo. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
2. Oxford and Cambridge Yearbook, 1904. 1904. p. 616.
3. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Richard Swann-Mason". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
4. "First-Class Matches played by Richard Swann-Mason". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
5. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Richard Swann-Mason". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
6. "No. 31099". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1918. p. 113.

External links

• Richard Swann-Mason at ESPNcricinfo

• 1871 births
• 1942 deaths
• People from South Cambridgeshire District
• People educated at The Perse School
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• 19th-century English Anglican priests
• English cricketers
• Cambridgeshire cricketers
• 20th-century English Anglican priests
• Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
• Royal Navy chaplains
• Royal Navy personnel of World War I
• Members of the Order of the British Empire
• Cricketers from Cambridgeshire
• Military personnel from Cambridgeshire