Roualeyn Cumming

Roualeyn Cumming
Personal information
Full name
Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming
Born2 November 1891
Calne, Wiltshire, England
Died6 February 1981(1981-02-06) (aged 89)
Droxford, Hampshire, England
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1921/22Europeans
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 6
Batting average 3.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 5
Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 November 2021

Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming CIE (2 November 1891 – 6 February 1981) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial police officer.

The son of R. C. Cumming, he was born at Calne in November 1891. Cumming was educated at St Paul's School, London.[1] He joined the Colonial Police Service in British India in 1911 as an assistant superintendent.[2] Cumming played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans against the Indians at Madras in the 1922 Madras Presidency Match.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for a single run by M. Venkataramanjulu, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by T. Vasu Nayudu.[4]

In the colonial police he was promoted to superintendent in April 1922, with him being appointed a deputy inspector-general of police in August 1935. In 1937, he was appointed inspector-general of police and joint secretary in the Home Department of Assam Province.[2] Cumming was made a Companion to the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours and was decorated with the King's Police and Fire Service Medal during the Second World War.[2][5] Cumming died in England in February 1981 at Droxford, Hampshire.

References

  1. ^ Gardiner, Robert Barlow (1906). The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 466.
  2. ^ a b c The India Office and Burma Office List for 1945 (55 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945. p. 172.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Roualeyn Cumming". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1921/22". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  5. ^ "No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. p. 43.