Michael Wrigley

Wrigley was born at Rostherne Manor in Rostherne, Cheshire. He was educated at Harrow School.[1][2] After leaving Harrow he served in the latter stages of the Second World War, when he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant in March 1944.[3] A year after the conclusion of the war, he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team in a rain-affected match against Surrey at Kingston-upon-Thames in 1946.[4]

He went up to Worcester College at the University of Oxford,[1][2] where he made his debut for Oxford University Cricket Club in first-class cricket against the Free Foresters at Oxford in 1948.[4] In that same year he toured Ireland with the Marylebone Cricket Club, playing in one first-class match against the Ireland cricket team at Dublin.[4] Wrigley played first-class cricket for Oxford University until 1950, making fourteen appearances.[4] Playing as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 45 wickets for Oxford University at an average of 22.20, with best figures of 6 for 57.[5] These figures were one of three five wicket hauls that he took during his first-class career, and came against Surrey in 1949 at The Oval.[6] He gained a blue for cricket in 1949.[2] He was a member of the Vincent's Club while at Oxford.[2]

In July 1951, during the Korean War, he was an recommissioned into the Rifle Brigade an emergency commission with the rank of lieutenant.[7] He later worked as an intelligence officer in the Far East.[2] He was later appointed as first secretary of British Embassay in Bangkok, in the service of which he was made an OBE in the 1971 Birthday Honours.[8] Later in his life he was a farmer near Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He was a director of Pontefract Racecourse during the first half of the 1990s, a post he held until his death at Leeds in January 1995.[9][2]

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