John Firth

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John D'Ewes Evelyn Firth, born at Nottingham, United Kingdom, on February 21, 1900 and died at Winchester on September 21, 1957, won fleeting fame as a schoolboy cricketer at Winchester College during the First World War.

A leg-break and googly bowler, Firth took all 10 wickets for 41 runs in a match against Eton College in 1917 and was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year among a selection of five public school bowlers in the 1918 almanack, there being no first-class cricket to report on.

In a first-class career of just four matches, Firth played twice for Oxford University and twice for Nottinghamshire. He became a schoolmaster and chaplain at Winchester College and wrote several books about the school. He later became Master of the Temple, and was canon emeritus of Winchester Cathedral at the time of his death.