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Peter Gracey

Peter Bosworth Kirkwood Gracey (12 December 1921 – 13 September 2006) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Hugh Malcolm Kirkwood Gracey, a soldier in the British Indian Army, and Elsie Marian Bosworth, he was born in British India at Bannu in December 1921. He was educated in England at Wellington College. Gracey served in the Second World War with the Royal Engineers, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in June 1942. While serving in India, he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in a 1945–46 Madras Presidency Match.Returning to England after the war, he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford as a Heath Harrison Exhibitioner in 1946. While studying at Oxfor… more »