John Drennan Eggar (1 December 1916 — 3 May 1983) was an English schoolmaster and first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Hampshire in 1938 and for Derbyshire from 1946 to 1954.
He spent 25 years at Repton, before being appointed headmaster at the newly established Shiplake College, where he oversaw an increase in the number of enrolled pupils and the expansion of the school.
The son of John Norman Eggar and his wife Emily Garret, he was born in British India at Nowshera.
Eggar served in the British Army during the Second World War,[5] being commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant from the Repton School Contingent in April 1940.
[6] By September 1941, he was serving in the Royal Pioneer Corps with the war substantive rank of lieutenant,[7] prior to transferring back to the Rifle Brigade in July 1943.
[4] At Repton, he coached the cricket team and commanded the Combined Cadet Force(CCF),[2] having been appointed an acting captain in April 1948.
[2] His association with the school's CCF continued until December 1959, when he resigned his commission and was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel.