Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming CIE (2 November 1891 – 6 February 1981) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial police officer.
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| Full name | Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1891 Calne, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 February 1981 (aged 89) Droxford, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1921/22 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 November 2021 | |||||||||||||||
The son of R. C. Cumming, he was born at Calne in November 1891. Cumming was educated at St Paul's School, London.[1] He joined the Colonial Police Service in British India in 1911 as an assistant superintendent.[2] Cumming played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans against the Indians at Madras in the 1922 Madras Presidency Match.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for a single run by M. Venkataramanjulu, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by T. Vasu Nayudu.[4]
In the colonial police he was promoted to superintendent in April 1922, with him being appointed a deputy inspector-general of police in August 1935. In 1937, he was appointed inspector-general of police and joint secretary in the Home Department of Assam Province.[2] Cumming was made a Companion to the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours and was decorated with the King's Police and Fire Service Medal during the Second World War.[2][5] Cumming died in England in February 1981 at Droxford, Hampshire.
References
edit- ^ Gardiner, Robert Barlow (1906). The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 466.
- ^ a b c The India Office and Burma Office List for 1945 (55 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945. p. 172.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Roualeyn Cumming". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1921/22". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. p. 43.