Captain John Frederick Ireland MC (12 August 1888 – 16 October 1970) was an English amateur cricketer.
Ireland was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium pace.
[3] He held the unusual record of captaining three Cambridge University teams in those games and was a triple blue.
[9] During the First World War, Ireland was a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery deployed in France.
In September 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry while in command of a battery that came under heavy bombardment.