Peter Blake (cricketer)
Peter Douglas Stuart Blake(23 May 1927 – 11 December 2011) was an English cricketer and clergyman. In cricket he was active from 1946 to 1953, playing forSussex.[1]
Blake was born inCalcuttaand died inTynron,Dumfriesshire.[2]He appeared in 58first-classmatches as a right-handedbatsman,scoring 2,067runswith a highest score of 130.[3]
After his schooling atEton College,Blake served hisnational servicein Germany after the end ofWorld War II,where he witnessed the trials of the officers who had staffed theRavensbrück concentration camp.The experience led him to decide to devote his career to the church.[2]Blake studiedTheologyatBrasenose College, Oxford,and was thenordainedas anAnglicanclergyman. He served asrectorofMufulira,inNorthern Rhodesia.[1]InZambia,as Northern Rhodesia became on independence, he was chairman of the Zambian Anglican Youth Council and ran a youth soccer team, was an adviser on religious programs for TV and radio, and produced Passion and Nativity plays.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Wisden Obituaries - 2012".Cricinfo.3 March 2014.
- ^abc"Obituary: Canon Peter Blake".The Scotsman.3 April 2012.Retrieved10 May2021.
- ^Peter Blake at CricketArchive
External links
[edit]- 1927 births
- 2011 deaths
- English cricketers
- Sussex cricketers
- Sportspeople from Kolkata
- Oxford University cricketers
- Free Foresters cricketers
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
- 20th-century Anglican priests
- 20th-century British military personnel
- Military personnel from Kolkata