Norton Hughes-Hallett

Norton Hughes-Hallett

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett (18 April 1895 — 26 March 1985) was a British Army officer and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1913 and 1914.

Hughes-Hallett was born at Melbourne, Derbyshire, the son of Norton Joseph Hughes-Hallett and his wife Alice Louisa Denton. He was educated at Haileybury College. He made his debut for Derbyshire in August 1913 in a match against Lancashire when he scored 32 in the first innings and took a wicket. He made little impact in the remaining two games that season. He played three games in 1914 with his top score of 67 against Hampshire and 53 against Leicestershire but bowled little. Hughes-Hallett was an upper-middle order right-hand batsman and played 11 innings in 6 first class matches for Derbyshire with a top score of 67 and an average of 17.80. He was a leg-break bowler and took one wicket with an average of 27.00.[1]

Hughes-Hallett served with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in World War I in France and Belgium and was wounded in action.[2] After the war he served in Ireland from 1919 to 1922[3] He played several games for the Gentlemen of Shropshire in the Netherlands in 1924. He was then posted to India where he played for the Europeans in two Bombay Quadrangular Tournaments in 1925/26 and 1926/27. He achieved his best bowling performance of 8-81 against the Muslims in 1925/26, but in both years the Europeans lost to the Hindus in the final. In India Hughes-Hallett played 6 innings in 4 matches with a top score of 41 and an average of 12.83. However he took 16 wickets with an average of 17.81 and a best performance of 8-81.[1]

He was a lieutenant-colonel in World War II with British Forces in Curaçao from 1941 to 1942 and garrison commander in Barbados in 1945 and 1946.

Hughes- Hallet died at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire at the age of 89.[4]

Hughes-Hallett married firstly Laura Lindell Ross Fisher in Massachusetts USA in 1945. Following divorce in 1951 he married Georgina Mary Thompson. His brother-in-law, John Pawle also played first-class cricket.

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