The son of soldier Alexander Lloyd Paris, he was born in British India at Kirkee in August 1911.
[1] Paris made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Worcestershire at Bournemouth in the 1933 County Championship, in what was his only appearance that season.
[2] He scored his maiden first-class century against Northampton in 1935, making 134 not out, with Wisden remarking that in his innings he hit "all round the wicket with marked skill and accuracy of timing".
[2] Paris served in the British Army during the Second World War,[5] being commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant in June 1939.
[13][14] Other challenges during his twelve-month chairmanship included facilitating the expansion of one-day cricket and the D'Oliveira affair.
A. Bailey noted that he "handled skilfully the need to balance change with cricket's essential regard for tradition".
In 1975, he was nominated by the Duke of Edinburgh to succeed him as president of the MCC,[15] and conversely, chairman of the International Cricket Conference.
[17] He became a partner in his family's well-established law-firm Paris, Smith and Randall in Southampton in 1938, the same year that he had assumed the Hampshire captaincy.
[1] Paris was involved in philanthropy alongside Sir Donald Acheson during the 1980s, helping to raise £4 million for a CT scanner for the Wessex region.