John Grosvenor Beevor (1 January 1845 – 5 May 1903) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er active 1868–1871 who played for

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

. He was born and died in

Barnby Moor Barnby Moor is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 257 (2001 census), increasing to the 2011 Census to 278. The village is about three miles north of East Retford. Geography T ...

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Retford Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...

, he was educated at

Uppingham School Uppingham School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson (rector), Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oa ...

from 1857 to 1862. He then had a career as a solicitor.

Family

Beevor was the father of Henry Beevor, a solicitor; who was father of John Grosvenor Beevor (1905–1987), known as an SOE agent of World War II. The younger John Grosvenor Beevor was the father of the author

Antony Beevor Sir Antony James Beevor, (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War. Early life Born in Kensington, Beevor was educated at two ...

References

1845 births 1903 deaths English cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers People from Barnby Moor Cricketers from Nottinghamshire Gentlemen of the North cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1840s-stub