Stanley Jackson Sir Francis Stanley Jackson , GCSI , GCIE , PC , KStJ ( 21 November 1870 – 9 March 1947 ) , known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career , was an English cricketer , soldier and Conservative Party politician . Early life . Jackson was born in Leeds . His father was William Jackson , 1st Baron Allerton . During Stanley ' s time at Harrow School his fag was fellow parliamentarian and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill . He went up to Trinity College , Cambridge in 1889 . Cricket career . Jackson played for Cambridge University , Yorkshire and England . He spotted the talent of Ranjitsinhji when the latter , owing to his unorthodox batting , was struggling to find a place for himself in the university side , and as captain was responsible for Ranji ' s inclusion in the Cambridge First XI and the awarding of his Blue . According to Alan Gibson this was " a much more controversial thing to do than would seem possible to us now " . He was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1894 . He captained England in 5 Test matches in 1905 , winning 2 and drawing 3 to retain The Ashes . Captaining England for the first time , he won all five tosses and topped the batting and bowling averages for both sides , with 492 runs at 70 . 28 and 13 wickets at 15 . 46 . These were the last of his 20 Test matches , all played at home as he could not spare the time to tour . Jackson still holds the Test record for the most matches in a career without playing away from home . Gibson wrote of him as a cricketer that he had " a toughness of character , a certain ruthlessness behind the genial exterior . . . He does not seem to have been a particularly popular man , though he was always a deeply respected one . " He was President of the MCC in 1921 . Jackson succeeded Lord Hawke as President of Yorkshire CCC in 1938 after Hawke ' s death and held the post until his own death in 1947 . Military and political career . Jackson served in the Royal Lancaster Regiment of Militia in the Second Boer War , and transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment as a Lieutenant - Colonel in 1914 . He was elected as a Member of Parliament at a by - election in February 1915 , representing Howdenshire ( Yorkshire ) until resigning his seat on 3 November 1926 . He served as Financial Secretary to the War Office 1922 - 23 . In 1927 he was appointed Governor of Bengal and in that year was knighted with the GCIE and was made a member of the Privy Council . He was awarded the KStJ in 1932 . In 1932 , he sidestepped and ducked five pistol shots fired at close range by a girl student named Bina Das in the Convocation Hall of the University of Calcutta . Escaping unharmed and smiling , " [ e ] ven before the smoke had blown away , the Governor resumed his speech amid cheers . " The attacker was tackled and disarmed by Lieutenant - Colonel Hassan Suhrawardy ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta ) , who was knighted by the King for his heroism . Later that year , Jackson was appointed GCSI . Funeral . Jackson died in London of complications following a road accident . Recalling his funeral , the Bishop of Knaresborough remarked " As I gazed down on the rapt faces of that vast congregation , I could see how they revered him as though he were the Almighty , though , of course , infinitely stronger on the leg side . "