Lancelot Grove

Grove was born at Satara in what was then British India to Colonel Percy Lynes Grove and his wife, Lorina.^[1] He was educated in England at Charterhouse School, before deciding on a career in the military and attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.^[1] He graduated from Woolwich in September 1925, and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant.^[2] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1927.^[3] He had to wait nearly a decade for his not promotion, which came in September 1936 when he was promoted to captain.^[4]

The following year he made his debut in first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team against the University of Oxford at Oxford,^[5] narrowly missing out on a century on debut when he was dismissed for 96 by Richard West in the Army's first-innings.^[1] He made a further appearance for the Army in 1937,^[5] against Cambridge University,^[5] with Grove scoring 75 in the Army's first-innings.^[1] He also played a first-class match in 1937 for a Combined Services cricket team against the touring New Zealanders at Portsmouth.^[5] Grove made a final first-class appearance for the Army against Cambridge University in 1938,^[5] making 106 in the Army's first-innings.^[1] In four first-class matches, Grove scored 332 runs at an average of 47.42.^[6]

He made an adjutant to Captain G. R. McMeekan in February 1938.^[7] He served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, with him being promoted to the rank of major in September 1942.^[8] Grove died when the Liberator he was aboard ran out of fuel during blizzard conditions and crashed at Gander in Newfoundland on 9 February 1943.^[9][1] He was buried at the Gander War Cemetery.^[1] Grove was survived by his wife, Joan Blanche Hill, and their son David, who would later serve as a major general in the British Army.^[10]

• Lancelot Grove at ESPNcricinfo