John Firth (cricketer)

John D'Ewes Evelyn Firth (21 February 1900 – 21 September 1957) was a schoolboy cricketer at Winchester College during the First World War.

He was born in Nottingham, the son of John Benjamin Firth and his wife Helena Gertrude.

[1] A leg-break and googly bowler, Firth took all 10 wickets for 41 runs in a match against Eton College in 1917 and was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year among a selection of five public school bowlers in the 1918 almanack, there being no first-class cricket to report on.

[2] In a first-class career of just four matches, Firth played twice for Oxford University and twice for Nottinghamshire.

[2] Firth wrote the biography of Dr Montague Rendall (1862-1950), former Headmaster of Winchester College.