Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie was an English cricketer, cricket administrator, and businessman.
29 Facts About Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
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Ingleby-Mackenzie was the only son of Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ingleby-Mackenzie and Violetta Longstaffe, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was born in Dartmouth on 15 September 1933.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was educated firstly at Ludgrove School, where the ex-Yorkshire cricketer Alan Barber was headmaster, before attending Eton College.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie additionally played in the Wall Game, football, tennis, and cricket, playing three times in the annual Eton v Harrow cricket match.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie established himself in the Hampshire side as a middle order batsman in the 1954 season, making 29 first-class appearances, scoring 821 runs at an average of 17.84.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie made four half centuries during his first full season, with a highest score of 85 runs.
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The tour took place in March and April 1956, with Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie playing two first-class matches against Trinidad and a West Indies XI.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie featured more regularly for Hampshire in 1956, making eleven appearances, alongside playing twice for the Free Foresters and once for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie made a maiden first-class century with an unbeaten 124 runs against Oxford University, in what was his first match of the season for Hampshire.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie followed this up with an unbeaten 130 runs against Worcestershire at Cowes.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie ended the season with 696 runs at an average of 34.80.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie gained his cap in 1957, after making 88 runs against Kent.
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Eagar retired after the 1957 season, with him subsequently appointing Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie to replace him in the captaincy.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was ably assisted by Leo Harrison, who he would often confide in for advice.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie again passed a thousand runs for the season, for the fifth and last time, scoring 1,077 at an average of 22.43, with one century.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie wrote his autobiography, Many a Slip, in 1962.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie led Hampshire to a tenth placed finish in the 1963 County Championship, though played in only nineteen first-class matches during the season.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie captained Hampshire to twelfth-place in both the 1964 County Championship and the 1965 County Championship.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie retired, aged just 31, following the 1965 season; the last amateur to captain Hampshire, he passed the captaincy onto the professional Roy Marshall.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie later became chairman of Holmwoods, having been managing director of its schools' insurance branch.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie oversaw the sale of the business to HSBC in 1997, where he became deputy chairman of HSBC Insurance Services.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was elected president of Hampshire in 2002, having previously advised Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove in a consultancy role.
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When he retired from business, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie became chairman of the Country Gentlemen's Association.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was reputedly one of the last to see Lord Lucan.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was a member of the exclusive Clermont Club and White's Club.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was a life member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, and captained Sunningdale Golf Club in 2000.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was awarded the OBE in the 2005 Birthday Honours, for services to sport.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie died just a few months after being diagnosed, passing away on 9 March 2006, following brain surgery.
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Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie was survived by his wife, Susan, who he had married in 1975, their daughter, and four stepchildren.