Grahame Parker

Grahame Wilshaw Parker OBE (11 February 1912 – 11 November 1995) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and represented the England national rugby union team.

Parker, who was educated at The Crypt School, opened the batting for Gloucestershire regularly throughout the 1930s and was also a useful swing bowler.

[5] He had also made a century in his previous match and continued his form with 155 against Nottinghamshire a week and a half after his double hundred.

During this time he served as a major in the Royal Army Service Corps, seeing action in both North Africa and Italy which won him a military MBE.

He taught at Blundell's from 1946 to 1968, where he was housemaster of the Westlake boarding house from 1954, head of the geography department, and simultaneously, with Ted Crowe, was coach of the 1st XV rugby team.