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{{short description|Irish cricketer and radiologist}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = Ireland
| full_name = Claude Mallinson Rigby
| birth_date = 29 March 1882
| birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1960|1|29|1882|3|29}}
| death_place = [[Middleton-on-Sea]], [[Sussex]],<br />England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
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| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 2
| bat avg1 = 1.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 2[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 12
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 29 November
| year = 2018
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/33291.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Claude Mallinson Rigby''' [[Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland|MRCS]], [[Royal College of Physicians#Membership and fellowship|LRCP]], DRME (29 March 1882 – 29 January 1960) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] first-class cricketer and radiologist.

Rigby was born at [[Dublin]] in March 1882, and was educated in England at [[Dulwich College]], before studying medicine at the [[Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry|London Hospital Medical College]].<ref name="BMJ">{{cite journal|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/5179/1140.4.full.pdf |title=Obituary |journal=Br Med J |publisher=[[British Medical Journal]]|date=1960-04-09 |volume=1 |issue=5179 |pages=1140–1141 |doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1140-c |s2cid=220221921 |access-date=2018-11-29}}</ref> He qualified in 1907,<ref name="BMJ"/> and joined the [[British Army]] in 1908, enslisting as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|Lieutenant]] on probation in the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28115 |date=3 March 1908 |page=1498}}</ref> He was posted to [[British India]], where he served as the chief surgeon of the Governor of Bombay, [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|The Lord Willingdon]] from 1915–1918.<ref name="BMJ"/> He served as the chief surgeon for [[Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson|Lord Rawlinson]] from 1921–1923, when he was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<ref name="BMJ"/> While in British India, Rigby played two [[first-class cricket]] matches for the aforementioned Lord Willingdon's XI, playing twice against the [[Jitendra Narayan|Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI]] in 1918 at [[Willingdon Sports Club|Bombay]] in March, and [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in August.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14439/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Claude Rigby |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2018-11-29}}</ref>

When he returned to England, he entered into the field of [[radiology]], where he worked at the [[Cambridge Military Hospital|Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot]]<ref name="BMJ"/> He retired from the military in 1928, with the rank of [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]].<ref name="BMJ"/> Upon retiring from the military, Rigby worked as a radiologist in civilian hospitals in the Midlands. He worked at various hospitals in the Midlands, including the [[Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton|Royal Hospital]], [[Guest Hospital]], [[Corbett Hospital]], and the Staffordshire General Infirmary.<ref name="BMJ"/> Rigby was recalled to the Royal Army Medical Corps during [[World War II]].<ref name="BMJ"/> Outside of cricket and his medical career, Rigby played [[tennis]], [[golf]] and [[rugby union]] as pastimes.<ref name="BMJ"/> He retired to [[Middleton-on-Sea]] in [[Sussex]], where he died in January 1960.<ref name="BMJ"/> He was survived by his wife, Mary, and their daughter.<ref name="BMJ"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=33291}}

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[[Category:1882 births]]
[[Category:1960 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Dublin (city)]]
[[Category:People educated at Dulwich College]]
[[Category:Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College]]
[[Category:20th-century Irish medical doctors]]
[[Category:Irish radiologists]]
[[Category:Royal Army Medical Corps officers]]
[[Category:Medical doctors from Dublin (city)]]
[[Category:Irish cricketers]]
[[Category:Lord Willingdon's XI cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]

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