Hugh Pochin Dinwiddy, (16 October 1912 – 31 October 2009) was an English

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er, who played

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for

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and Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1933 and 1935. He was the last man alive to play first-class cricket against both Jack Hobbs (whilst playing for Kent) and Donald Bradman (representing Cambridge University).Obituary
in ''

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'', 12 Nov. 2009.Williamson M (2009
Hugh Dinwiddy dies aged 97

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, 2 November 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2017. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1933 against

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Kent County Cricket Club's oldest surviving player Hugh Dinwiddy dies
'' Kent Online'', 3 November 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2017.

Life

Dinwiddy was the son of Major C. H. Dinwiddy. He captained both the Cricket XI and the First XV at Radley College in 1931, and went up to

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in 1932. At Cambridge Dinwiddy also won a

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for rugby and played for Harlequins, being trialed for England in 1936.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939'', pp. 55–57.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 7 August 2022.) After graduation Dinwiddy taught English and rugby at Ampleforth College until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he enlisted in the Royal Navy. In 1947 he married Yvonne Marie Catterall. In 1956, at the instigation of Paul Foster, Dinwiddy moved to

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to teach literature and creative writing at Makerere College in

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, a constituent part of the University College of East Africa, soon to become the University of East Africa (and later

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).Obituary
in ''The Old Radleian'', 2010. He went on to serve as the Dean of the college. He returned to England in 1970, and was made an Officer of the

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(OBE) in the 1971 New Year Honours for his work in Uganda. He lived at Bognor Regis and worked as an adult education teacher and an occasional lecturer on African affairs for

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and the

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Works

*''Uganda's Relations with Britain from 1971-1976'' (1987).

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dinwiddy, Hugh 1912 births 2009 deaths Kent cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Free Foresters cricketers Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Radley College Academic staff of Makerere University English cricketers English expatriates in Uganda