Charles Frederick Grieve (1 October 1913, Manila

Manila

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, Phillipines – 1 June 2000, Ludlow

Ludlow

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, Shropshire

Shropshire

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, England) was a rugby union player, who played for . He was also a notable cricketer for Guernsey and Oxford University. He was born in Manila

Manila

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 in the Philippines

Philippines

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 and was educated at Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest Roman Catholic co-educational boarding independent school in the United Kingdom. It opened in 1802, as a boys' school, and is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey...

 in England

England

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,

Rugby union

Grieve was capped for against Wales in 1935.

Grieve was also on the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa

1938 British Lions tour to South Africa

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.

He played club rugby with Oxford University RFC

Oxford University RFC

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Cricket

Grieve was a right-handed batsman. He represented Ampleforth on the 1st XI.

Later progressing to Oxford University, he represented the University cricket club

Oxford University Cricket Club

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 in a single first-class

First-class cricket

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 match against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in 1936. In this match he scored 6 runs in the University's first-innings before being dismissed by George Pope and in their second-innings he 2 runs before being dismissed by Tommy Mitchell. In 1934, he had played his only match for Guernsey

Guernsey cricket team

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 against the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 in what was a non first-class fixture. Opening the batting in Guernsey's first-innings, he scored a century

Century (cricket)

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 and in their second he scored 6 runs.

External links

• Charles Grieve at scrum dot com
• Charles Grieve at ESPNcricinfo
• Charles Grieve at CricketArchive
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