Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie

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(15 September 1933 – 9 March 2006) was an English

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er: a left-handed

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who played for

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between 1951 and 1966, captaining the county from 1958 to 1965 as Hampshire's last amateur captain and leading his side to their first

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in the 1961 season. He was later president of the

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from 1996 to 1998, during which time women were first permitted to join.

Early life

Ingleby-Mackenzie was born in

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, Devon, to Sir (Kenneth) Alexander Ingleby-Mackenzie (1892-1961), a surgeon officer in the

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who ended his career as a Vice-Admiral, and Violetta Constance, daughter of judge Amyas Philip Longstaffe. He was educated at Ludgrove and Eton, where he became keeper of

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, rackets, and the Field Game. He also played in the Wall Game, soccer, tennis, and cricket, playing three times in the annual cricket match against

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and for the

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against the

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. He was elected as President of

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Ingleby-Mackenzie played his first match for Hampshire in

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, having been spotted at Eton by

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, although he was bowled for a duck by Alan Oakman in his debut

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First-class cricket career

He did

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with the Royal Navy, during which time he played cricket for Combined Services and, on leave in the summer of

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, for Hampshire. He played a full season for Hampshire in 1954, then declined a place at

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to work for

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, who gave him copious leave to pursue a parallel cricket career with Hampshire. He toured the

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with a team led by

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in early 1956, and then headed the Hampshire batting averages in the 1956 County Championship season. After sharing the county captaincy with Desmond Eagar in

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, he became sole captain in 1958, in which year he was also named as the

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. His "day time" job also changed, accepting an invitation from

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to join the

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s Holmwoods, Back and Manson. Nevertheless, he was often absent pursuing his sport in a swashbuckling fashion. Hampshire's victory in the

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was, in part, due to Ingleby-Mackenzie's bold captaincy: 10 of their 19 victories that season are attributable to bold declarations on the third (and last) day, in a summer when the opposing team could not be made to follow-on. The team included West Indian opening batsman

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, veteran swing and seam bowler

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, and fast bowler David White. In his first-class career, he scored 12,421 first-class runs, including 11 hundreds, at a relatively low

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of 24.35, this figure depressed at least in part because of his attacking instincts: in only one season (

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) when he played more than a handful of games did he average above 30. However, he passed 1,000 runs in a season five times. He was an occasional right-arm

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bowler (he never took a wicket) and an equally occasional

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, who gained his only first-class

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(that of

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) for the

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against

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in the 1956–1957 West Indian cricket season, deputising for Leo Harrison. He wrote his autobiography, ''Many a Slip'', in 1962.

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After cricket

He retired from first-class cricket in

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, and later became chairman of Holmwoods. He led the firm through a 33 million pound management buyout from

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in 1992 and oversaw the sale of the business to

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in 1997, becoming deputy chairman of HSBC Insurance Services. He became cricket manager for Sir Paul Getty at his ground at

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. He was reputedly one of the last to see Lord Lucan. He was a member of the

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and White's Club. He was also a life member of the

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and he captained

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in 2000. Ingleby-Mackenzie served as president of

from 1996 to 1998. He was in the post when the new media centre at Lord's was approved and building work began. He led a campaign in favour of women's membership, ultimately convincing members to vote in favour of the change in September 1998, after forcing two votes on the matter within seven months. He pronounced himself "absolutely delighted" at the decision. and he is famously quoted as saying "Women are a very fine species." He became president of Hampshire in 2002.

Personal life

He married Susan Marion Clifford-Turner in 1975; they had a daughter. He was awarded the

in the summer of 2005, just a few months before his death at the age of 72, following surgery for a brain tumour. The hearse carrying his coffin passed beneath and adjacent to the stands as it circled Lord's Cricket Ground before making its way to Kensal Rise Crematorium. A memorial service was held on 29 June 2006 at

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which was attended by more than 1,600 people.

References

External links

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Statistical summary
from CricketArchive
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'', 16 March 2006) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingleby-Mackenzie, Colin 1933 births 2006 deaths Royal Navy sailors 20th-century Royal Navy personnel Military personnel from Devon English cricketers Hampshire cricketers Hampshire cricket captains Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Combined Services cricketers Commonwealth XI cricketers International Cavaliers cricketers Officers of the Order of the British Empire Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Gentlemen cricketers Free Foresters cricketers North v South cricketers People educated at Eton College People educated at Ludgrove School People from Dartmouth, Devon Deaths from brain cancer in England