Alban Dobson

Alban Tabor Austin Dobson CVO CBE CB (29 June 1885 – 19 May 1962) was an English first-class cricketer and civil servant.

The son of the poet Henry Austin Dobson, he was born at Ealing in June 1885 and was raised with a strict upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren.

[2] While studying at Cambridge, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England against Surrey at The Oval in 1905.

He was appointed to the position of assistant to the head of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in January 1908.

Two years after his death, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named Dobson Dome after him.