Richard Ingleby Jefferson (born 15 August 1941 in

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, Surrey) was a professional cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club. The son of Brigadier Julian Jefferson, Jefferson was educated at

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and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He won a

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but left after a year. He went on to play a couple of seasons for Surrey before illness in 1965 curtailed his first-class career. He subsequently played for Norfolk, before taking a Certificate in Education and teaching in a private school. A right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed bat, he was mentioned in a 1981 article by

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on the best English cricketers never to have played for England. Arlott wrote that "he may well have been the greatest loss to English cricket in the post-war period".
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from Cricinfo He is the father of the cricketer

Will Jefferson William Ingleby Jefferson (born 25 October 1979) is a former professional cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire in a 12-year career. He retired from the game in 2012 as a result of a chronic h ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jefferson, Richard 1941 births Living people Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Cambridge University cricketers Cricketers from Frimley English cricketers Gentlemen cricketers International Cavaliers cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Minor Counties cricketers Norfolk cricketers People educated at Winchester College Surrey cricketers People educated at Ludgrove School