Richard Vivian Macaulay Stanbury (5 February 1916 – 29 June 2008) was a career diplomat whose colourful life included playing first-class cricket for Somerset in two matches, one in each of the 1935 and 1936 seasons.
[1] He was born at Madras, now known as Chennai, India and died in East Sussex, England.
A right-handed lower order batsman and wicketkeeper, he took two catches (Paul Gibb in both Cambridge innings) and scored 6 and 21.
[4] Invalided out of Sudan in 1950, he was posted to Cairo in the transition to the Egyptian republic, where his fluency in Arabic and use of appropriate expletives saved him from lynching at the hands of a mob.
[4] He met his wife, Geraldine, in Cairo; they married in 1953, and he was survived by her, by a daughter and a son, and by five grandchildren.