John Drennan Eggar was an English schoolmaster and first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Hampshire in 1938 and for Derbyshire from 1946 to 1954.
13 Facts About John Eggar
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John Eggar spent 25 years at Repton, before being appointed headmaster at the newly established Shiplake College, where he oversaw an increase in the number of enrolled pupils and the expansion of the school.
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The son of John Norman Eggar and his wife Emily Garret, he was born in British India at Nowshera.
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John Eggar was educated in England at Winchester College, where he played for the college cricket team, captaining it in his final year.
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Whilst studying at Oxford, Eggar was a member of the Oxford University Cricket Club.
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John Eggar made his debut in first-class cricket for the club against Gloucestershire at Oxford in 1938.
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John Eggar served in the British Army during the Second World War, being commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant from the Repton School Contingent in April 1940.
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John Eggar played regularly in the summer holidays for Derbyshire until 1950, but appeared in just three further first-class matches thereafter: against the touring South Africans in 1951, and playing twice in the 1954 County Championship.
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In 1963 John Eggar became headmaster of newly established Shiplake College.
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Just as he had at Repton, John Eggar sat on the Parish Council at Shiplake.
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John Eggar was chairman of the local branch of the Royal British Legion.
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John Eggar spent sixteen years as headmaster at Shiplake, before retiring in 1979.
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John Eggar died on 3 May 1983, whilst playing tennis at Hinton St George, Somerset.