lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor debutagainst country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate role source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
cambridge university ? 28 may 1978 10 july 1928 1 25/0 1928/29 -- 1929/30 1931 -- 1933 2011 1 july 1907 -- victoria australia paris , france south australia oxford university -- right-handed brian hone sir brian william hone south australia semaphore , south australia , australia first-class 30 november batsman http://cricketarchive.co.uk/southaustralia/players/16/16191/16191.html cricketarchive first-class 1933 2768 1907 7 1 yes 0 oxford university 9/8 44 brian hone

brian hone

sir brian william hone obe face -lrb- 1907 -- 1978 -rrb- was an australian headmaster and , in his youth , a first-class cricketer .
born on 1 july 1907 at semaphore , a suburb of adelaide , south australia , he was educated at prince alfred college and the university of adelaide -lrb- b.a. hons , 1928 -rrb- where he won blues in cricket , football and tennis .
during the 1929 -- 30 cricket season he opened the batting for south australia , scoring a century against victoria and averaging nearly 50 .
in 1930 he was awarded a rhodes scholarship to attend new college , oxford -lrb- b.a. , 1932 ; m.a. , 1938 -rrb- , and achieved honours in english .
-lrb- c. s. lewis was his tutor -rrb- .
he won blues in cricket and tennis .
he was the brother of tennis player garton hone and father of sportsman david hone .
from 1933 to 1939 , hone taught at marlborough college , wiltshire , and was made head of the new department of english .
whilst in england he wrote `` cricket practice and tactics '' , -lrb- london , 1937 -rrb- .
1940 -- 1950 : headmaster , cranbrook school sydney , new south wales , australia .
1951 -- 1970 : headmaster , melbourne grammar school , victoria , australia .
1973 -- 1974 : deputy chancellor , monash university .
he died in paris on 28 may 1978 .
his remains lie near the norfolk island pine planted in dr j e bromby 's honour in the grounds of melbourne grammar school .
