Iain Campbell (cricketer)

Iain Parry Campbell (5 February 1928 – 31 May 2015) was an English sportsman and schoolteacher. Campbell was born in England and later taught and lived in Rhodesia and New Zealand where he retired. He played hockey for England and both cricket and rugby union for Kent as well as being a good all-round sportsman.[1]

Iain Campbell
Personal information
Full nameIain Parry Campbell
Born(1928-02-05)5 February 1928
Purley, Surrey, England
Died31 May 2015(2015-05-31) (aged 87)
Taupo, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1946Kent
1949–1951Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 22
Runs scored 482
Batting average 15.06
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 60*
Catches/stumpings 25/16
Source: Cricinfo, 25 January 2017

Sporting career

Campbell was educated at Canford School and Trinity College, Oxford.[2] At Canford he excelled at rugby union, hockey, squash, tennis, athletics and cricket, captaining the school first team in all six sports.[3] As captain of the cricket team in 1946, his final year, he scored 1277 runs at an average of 116, including an innings of 222 not out in 150 minutes and another of 237 in 106 minutes.[4] He was seen as one of the most promising schoolboy batsmen in the country.[1] Writing in Wisden on that year's schools cricket, E. M. Wellings said:

Campbell had methods all of his own, rough and ready by precise standards but very effective for all that. ... He has so far avoided text-book dogmas, and he has it in him to become a fine slogger. His eye seemingly allows him to hook without moving the right foot across the wicket, to cut the ball very near the off stump, to drive cross-batted and to hit across the line of the ball. A good eye, confidence and exceptional power of strike are natural assets which add up to a large sum.[5]

He was unable to repeat his schoolboy success at first-class level. In one match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1946, and 18 matches for Oxford University between 1949 and 1951, he played chiefly as a wicket-keeper.[1] He hit his highest score in 1951 against Leicestershire, when he scored 60 not out between going to the wicket with the score at 54 for 6 and the fall of the last wicket at 142.[6] He toured Canada with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1951, playing in the first-class match against the Canadian national side,[7] and played his final first-class match against Ireland in Dublin in 1954.[1]

Campbell was a good all-round sportsman and won a Blue in hockey at Oxford. He went on to win an England cap in the sport. He played rugby union for Kent and London Counties.[8]

Teaching career

Campbell became a schoolteacher. He taught at King's School, Worcester, Rugby and Cranleigh in England,[3] and Peterhouse in Rhodesia[9] before becoming headmaster of St Stephen's College in Rhodesia from 1968 to 1973.

He was headmaster of King's College, Auckland, from 1973 until 1987, when he retired.[1][3] He was a uniting and moderating headmaster of King's after a relatively authoritarian era under the previous headmaster, and introduced co-education to the school in 1980.[10]

He later lived in Taupo, New Zealand, and died at home on 31 May 2015. He and his wife Anne were married for 62 years.[11]

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References
  1. Obituaries, Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2016, pp.257–258. Kent County Cricket Club, 2016.
  2. "Iain Campbell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  3. "Iain Campbell". Canford School. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. Wisden 1947, p. 565.
  5. E.M. Wellings, "The Public Schools, 1946", Wisden, 1947, p. 560.
  6. "Oxford University v Leicestershire 1951". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  7. Wisden 1952, pp. 898–902.
  8. Campbell, Ian Parry, Obituaries, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  9. "Staff news". The Petrean Society. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  10. "Iain Campbell". King's College. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  11. "Passing of Former Headmaster Iain Campbell". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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