Alan Luther
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| Full name | Alan Charles Grenville Luther | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
17 September 1880 Kensington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
23 June 1961 (aged 80) Staplemead, Curland, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1908 | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 3 January 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alan Charles Grenville Luther MC (17 September 1880 – 23 June 1961) was an English soldier and cricketer.
Educated at Rugby, where he appeared in the First XI in 1897 and 1898,[1] Luther did his military training at Sandhurst. He joined the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, where he attained the rank of major and was awarded the Military Cross.[2]
He played cricket at various levels until his late forties, mostly as a batsman, including nine first-class matches for Sussex in 1908 and eight for MCC from 1908 to 1911. His highest first-class score was 42, for MCC against Leicestershire in 1909.[3] He played Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire in 1926 and 1927, scoring 101 out of a team total of 194 against Hertfordshire in 1927.[4]
He served as secretary of Berkshire CCC and assistant secretary of Surrey CCC.[1] At The Oval in the late 1920s he organized the net sessions for young club members; Ronald Mason remembers him as "tall and willowy with a shock of grey hair on a handsome head that swayed engagingly as he walked".[5]
Luther was also a prominent rackets player.[1] He married Mary Noel in July 1921. They had one son.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Wisden 1962, p. 987.
- 1 2 "The Peerage: Person Page 29859". The Peerage. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ↑ "MCC v Leicestershire 1909". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ↑ "Hertfordshire v Berkshire 1927". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ↑ Ronald Mason, Batsman's Paradise, Hollis & Carter, London, 1955, p. 80.