Alastair McCorquodale
 Alistair McCorquodale in the Olympic Village, London 1948 | ||
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Competitor for  Great Britain
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.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1948 London | 4x100 metre relay |
Alastair McCorquodale (5 December 1925 in Hillhead, Glasgow – 27 February 2009 in Grantham[1]) was a Scottish athlete and cricketer.
McCorquodale was educated at Harrow where he opened the bowling for the 1st XI in the 1948 Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. He represented Britain in Athletics at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. He was denied a bronze medal in the 100m final by a photo finish, but won a silver medal in the 4x100m relay. He never ran again.
He also represented the Free Foresters, Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948 and Middlesex in three matches in 1951, as a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He toured Canada with MCC in 1951-52. He was the seventh oldest living Middlesex first-class cricketer prior to his death.
He married Rosemary Turnor, a daughter of Major Herbert Broke Turnor and his wife Lady Enid Fane, (a daughter of the 13th Earl of Westmorland). They had a daughter Sarah (who married Geoffrey van Cutsem, son of Bernard and brother of Hugh van Cutsem, in 1969) and a son Neil (who married Lady Sarah Spencer, sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1980).
References
- ↑ Matthews, Peter & Watman, Mel eds. Athletics International Vol 17, No6 – 3 March 2009
External links
- Cricinfo
- Cricket Archive
- "Grantham Today"
- The Peerage
- Alastair McCorquodale, Track Stats, November 2007