Stuart King

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Stuart Patrick King (April 22, 1906 - February 28, 1943) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football for Victorian Football League club St Kilda.

King started his cricket career first, debuting for Victoria in the 1926/27 Sheffield Shield season. He was a right handed wicket-keeper batsman and batted in the middle order. The last of his 12 first-class matches was played in 1932/33 and he finished with 417 runs at 27.80. His claim to fame as a cricketer was scoring seven of Victoria's world record 1107 runs against NSW in his debut summer.

After being recruited from the University Blacks, King played his first VFL match for St Kilda in 1931 and the following year was appointed club captain. When Charlie Hardy left the Saints seven games into the 1932 season he acted as a caretaker coach for the rest of the year. King played mostly as a defender and in his three seasons managed 43 games.

In World War Two, King served with the RAAF and was killed in action off the coast of New Guinea.