Captain John Glennie
Greig
Male
England
1871-10-24
Mhow, India
1958-05-24
Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, England
From Wikipedia: J. G. Greig - Wikipedia
John Glennie Greig CIE was an English first-class cricketer and cricket administrator, British Army officer, racquets and tennis player, and Roman Catholic priest.
Greig’s military career spanned from 1892 to 1921, beginning with his commissioning into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and eventual transfer to the British Indian Army. In British India, he held the appointments of aide-de-camp and military secretary to the Governor of Bombay. He would later serve with the 107th Pioneers during the First World War.
As a cricketer, his first-class career spanned from 1893 to 1922, with Greig predominantly playing for the Europeans cricket team in India and Hampshire in England. In 125 first-class matches, he scored over 6,500 runs and took nearly 140 wickets. He was considered the leading “white” player of the time in India, and in 1898 he made the first double-century to be scored in first-class cricket on Indian soil.
Greig was head of the committee which selected the Indian team which toured England in 1911, the first by an All-Indian team. During his time in India, he was also credited with discovering Palwankar Baloo while he was engaged with the Poona Gymkhana. The cricket historian Vasant Raiji likened Greig’s contribution to Indian cricket to that of Ranjitsinhji’s to English cricket. He would later serve Hampshire in an administrative capacity as its secretary from 1921 to 1930 and its president in 1945 and 1946.
Greig was also a competent racquets and tennis player, who won the men’s singles title at the Western India Tennis Championships. Later in his life, he would be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest and was appointed to be the first resident priest in Ringwood, Hampshire.
1889 - 1910
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1902 - Marryatt Cup (Amateur)
1899 - Marryatt Cup (Amateur)
1898 - Western India Championships (Amateur)
1891 - Fakenham (Amateur)
Round 2
Otto Paul Lindpaintner 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Réginald Storms 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
6-3
8-6
Semifinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Henry George Watson Meikle
6-1
6-2
Final
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Charles Henry Stewart Boggs
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Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
bye
Semifinals
W. Reid 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
6-3
6-5
Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
J.C.W. Brooks
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Douglas Blyth Binning
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Lieut. Back
6-3
6-2
Final
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
W. Reid
5-6
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Henry George Watson Meikle
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Maurice Percy Ferdinand Fischer
6-0
6-2
Final
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
Herbert E. Cheetham
6-5
6-3
Final
Herbert E. Cheetham 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
6-5
6-2
Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
W. Reid
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
A.J. Brooks 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
5-6
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
J. Brereton
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
C. Howard
6-0
6-0
Final
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
H.C. Rogers
w.o.
Round 1
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
W. Bulwer
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
R. Freeman
6-2
6-1
Semifinals
Captain John Glennie Greig 1 *
C. Freeman
6-2
6-2
Final
H.C. Rogers 1 *
Captain John Glennie Greig
6-3
7-6