James Guise
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| Full name | James Louis Theodore Guise | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 August 1910 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 June 1996 (aged 85) Lingfield, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | John Guise, Sr. (father) John Guise, Jr. (brother) Patrick Brett (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
James Louis Theodore Guise (26 August 1910 – 18 June 1996) was an English first-class cricketer and solicitor.
Guise was born at Calcutta in British India to John Dougal Guise, an East India merchant, and his wife Laura Lilian (nee Buckland).[1][2] He was educated in England at Winchester College, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford.[3] After graduating from Trinity, Guise became a lawyer. He made one appearance in first-class cricket in 1937 for the Free Foresters against Oxford University at Oxford.[4] Batting twice in the match, Guise was dismissed for 11 runs by Randle Darwall-Smith in the Free Foresters first-innings, while following-on in their second-innings he was dismissed for 7 runs by the same bowler.[5]
He continued to practice law until his retirement in 1969.[6] He was a past president of the Holborn Law Society.[6] Guise died in June 1996 at Lingfield, Surrey. His brother, John Jr., was also a first-class cricketer.
His father, John Dougal Guise, had also played at least two first-class matches, for Gentlemen of India against Oxford Authentics in Delhi in 1902-03, and for MC Bird’s XI against Maharajah of Cooch-Behar’s XI, at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, in 1918-19.[1]
References
- ^ a b Dhole, Pradip (10 September 2018). "John Lindsay Guise: The man who opened batting at Eden Gardens against MCC in 1926-27". Cricket Country. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ^ "Player profile: John Guise". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ Oxford University Calendar. Oxford University Press. 1935. p. 742.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by James Guise". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Oxford University v Free Foresters, 1937". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ a b The Solicitors' Journal. Vol. 113th volume. The Journal. 1970. p. 278.