Geoffrey Peter Marsland (17 May 1932 – 30 August 2016) was an English first-class

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er and educator. Marsland was born at Ashton-under-Lyne in June 1932. He was educated at

Rossall School Rossall School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for 0–18 year olds, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College ...

, before going up to

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the ...

. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, making his debut against Gloucestershire at Oxford in 1953. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1954, making seventeen appearances. In his seventeen first-class matches, Marsland scored 448 runs at an average of 16.00 and a high score of 74, one of three half centuries he made. After graduating from Oxford, he became a schoolmaster who taught at Eton College. Marsland died in August 2016.Geoffrey Peter Marsland. '' The Times''. 3 September 2016

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsland, Geoffrey 1932 births 2016 deaths Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Cricketers from Ashton-under-Lyne English cricketers Teachers at Eton College Oxford University cricketers People educated at Rossall School