Cecil Paris

Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris (20 August 1911 — 4 April 1998) was an amateur English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club eitherside of the Second World War, including as captain in 1938. Later in his life, he was a prominent cricket administrator. He was the first chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board and succeeded the Duke of Edinburgh as president of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1975. He also held every administrative office at Hampshire until 1989. During the Second World War, Paris was a liaison officer for General Bernard Montgomery and was awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross. By profession, he was a solicitor and was a partner in his family's long-established Southampton law firm.