Hugo Hood
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Full name | Ernest Hugo Meggeson Hood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Burnby, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England | 27 August 1915||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 August 1968 Scarborough, Yorkshire, England | (aged 52)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm (unknown style) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1935 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive (subscription required), 22 December 2015 |
Ernest Hugo Meggeson Hood DSO, CdG (27 August 1915 – 1 August 1968) was an English war hero, schoolmaster and, for one game, a first-class cricketer.[1] He was a left-arm bowler who played for Somerset.[2][3] He was born at Burnby, Pocklington, Yorkshire and died in Scarborough.
Cricket
Hood was educated at Wellington College, where he opened the bowling for the first-eleven cricket team and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1] It was while at Cambridge that he made a single first-class cricket appearance for Somerset during the 1935 season, against Cambridge University; he never played for the Cambridge eleven, and his qualification for Somerset (which would have been needed had he played in competitive games such as the County Championship) appears to be dubious. From the tailend, he scored 2 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 4 runs in the second. He bowled 13 overs in the match, conceding 43 runs.
Schoolmastering and war career
On graduation from
Hood retired from the British army with the rank of
On 11 July 1968, he was knocked down by a car near the school where he taught, and he died from his injuries in hospital three weeks later.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-85704-306-1.
- ^ "Ernest Hood". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "Ernest Hood". espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
External links
- Ernest Hood at Cricket Archive (subscription required)