Geoffrey Beck (cricketer)
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Full name | Geoffrey Edward Beck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England | 16 June 1918||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 March 2019 Polegate, East Sussex, England | (aged 100)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1946 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1951 | Oxfordshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 November 2018 |
Geoffrey Edward Beck (16 June 1918 – 5 March 2019) was an English
Education
Geoffrey Beck attended Whitgift School from 1928 to 1934,[1] and later studied theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, from 1942 to 1946.[2]
Cricket
A middle-order batsman, Beck represented
Marriage and ministry
Beck married Joy Crookshank, a
British-German relations
Beck was co-founder of the Adam von Trott Memorial Appeal Project in honour of the participant, a former student at Oxford, in the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. The appeal provides scholarships to German students to study at Mansfield College. In 2014 the German government awarded Beck the Cross of the Order of Merit for his work for British-German relations.[5][6]
Retirement and death
Beck lived in retirement in East Sussex,[7] and died in March 2019 at the age of 100. His wife died in 2000; they had four children.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Recent Deaths May/June 2019". Whitgiftian Association. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Geoffrey Beck, "65 Years of Friendship", Mansfield Magazine, Winter 2009, p. 30.
- ^ "Miscellaneous matches played by Geoffrey Beck". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ "Surrey v Oxford University 1946". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ Wynick, Alex (10 February 2014). "German honour for von Trott memorial". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ "Germany honours Herstmonceux man". Sussex Express. 12 February 2014. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ "Chairman's e Bulletin, Friends of Coventry Cathedral, January 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ James Roberts, "Obituary: Congregational minister Geoffrey Beck served in Summertown", This is Oxfordshire, 25 April 2019.
External links
- Geoffrey Beck at ESPNcricinfo
- Geoffrey Beck at CricketArchive