Roger Knight
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| Full name | Roger David Verdon Knight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 September 1946 Streatham, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roger David Verdon Knight OBE (born 6 September 1946) is an English administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster. He was awarded the OBE in 2007. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)[1] and was President of the club from 2015 to 2016.
Background
[edit]He was born in Streatham, the son of the late David Verdon Knight, who was himself both an Old Alleynian and a graduate of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and the late Thelma Patricia Knight. D.V. Knight was a master at Dulwich College where he was also the head of the junior boarding house Bell House.
Education
[edit]He was educated at Dulwich College and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He read Modern and Medieval Languages, earning a BA in 1969, MA in 1972 and a DipEd in 1971.
First-Class Cricket Career
[edit]He played first-class cricket for:
- Cambridge University Cricket Club (blue) (1967–1970)
- Surrey County Cricket Club (1968–1970) and (1978–1984) (Captain 1978–1983)
- Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (1971–1975)
- Sussex County Cricket Club (1976–1977)[2]
Teaching career
[edit]- Assistant Master at Eastbourne College (1970–1978)
- Assistant Master at Dulwich College (1978–1983)
- Housemaster at Cranleigh School (1983–1990)
- Headmaster of Worksop College (1990–1993)[3]
Administrative Appointments
[edit]- Surrey County Cricket Club Cricket Committee (1984–1987)
- Vice Chairman of the South East Region of the Sports Council (1985–1990)
- Governor of the TVS Trust (1987–1992)
- MCC Committee (1989–1992)
- HMC Sports sub-committee (1991–1993)
- Secretary of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1994–2000)[4]
- President of the European Cricket Federation (1994–1997)
- Governor of Rendcomb College (1995–1999)
- ECB Management Board (1997–2006)
- Governor of King's School, Taunton (1998 to date)
- Chairman of Education Committee (The King's Schools, Taunton) (2004 to date)
- Councillor of the London Playing Fields Society (1998–2002)
- Secretary & Chief Executive of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (2000–2006)
- Governor of Dulwich College (2004 to date)
- Chairman of the European Cricket Council (2006 to date)
- Chairman of the Board of the ECB Association of Cricket Officials (2008 to date)[5]
- President of Surrey County Cricket Club (2008–2009)
- President of Marylebone Cricket Club (2015–2016)[6]
Recreations
[edit]- Cricket, tennis, bridge, piano music, 17th century French Literature
Notes
[edit]- ^ news item
- ^ "OA Stories - Roger Knight OBE". www.dulwich.org.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ "Roger Knight profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ "Cricket: Knight to take the helm at MCC: All-round knowledge should". The Independent. 26 March 1993. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ "Roger Knight OBE to Chair ECB Association of Cricket Officials | Isle of Wight Cricket Board". www.isleofwightcricketboard.co.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ "Roger Knight to take over as MCC President; Mike Gatting elected onto Committee". Sky Sports. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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- Sussex cricketers
- Schoolteachers from London
- People educated at Dulwich College
- Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club
- Secretaries of the Marylebone Cricket Club
- Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
- Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers
- D. H. Robins' XI cricketers
- Schoolteachers from Nottinghamshire
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- Teachers at Worksop College