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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = David Fursdon
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Edward David Fursdon
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|12|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bitchet Green]], [[Kent]], England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium-fast]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year1 = 1973–1975
| club2 = [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]]
| year2 = 1981
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 17
| runs1 = 484
| bat avg1 = 21.04
| 100s/50s1 = 1/1
| top score1 = 112[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 2,967
| wickets1 = 43
| bowl avg1 = 33.20
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/60
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 4
| runs2 = 44
| bat avg2 = 22.00
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 28[[not out|*]]
| deliveries2 = 224
| wickets2 = 3
| bowl avg2 = 33.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/19
| catches/stumpings2 = 0/–
| date = 1 September
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13228c.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Edward David Fursdon''' (born 20 December 1952) is an English former [[cricket]]er. He is the current [[Lord Lieutenant of Devon]].

==Early life, military service and cricket==
The son of Major General [[Francis Fursdon|Francis William Edward Fursdon]] and his wife, Joan Rosemary Worssam, David Fursdon was born in December 1952 at [[Bitchet Green|Bitchet Green, Kent]].<ref name="PEER">{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p68409.htm |title=Edward David Fursdon |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |accessdate=2019-09-01}}</ref> He was educated at [[Sherborne School]]. After leaving Sherborne, Fursdon was commissioned into the [[6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles|6th Gurkha Rifles]] as a [[Second_lieutenant#United_Kingdom_&_other_Commonwealth_countries|second lieutenant]] in February 1972,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45632|date=27 March 1972|page=3770|supp=y}}</ref> where he served in [[Brunei]] and [[British Hong Kong]]. He had previously won a scholarship to the [[University of Oxford]], where he studied at [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] from October 1972-July 1975.<ref name="PRO">{{cite web|url=https://www.lordlieutenantofdevon.org.uk/about/people/ |title=Lord-Lieutenant of Devon |publisher=www.lordlieutenantofdevon.org.uk |accessdate=2019-09-01}}</ref>

While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] at [[University_Parks#Cricket_ground|Oxford]] in 1973. He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1975, making sixteen appearances.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29568/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by David Fursdon |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as an [[all-rounder]], he scored 479 runs for Oxford at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 22.80 and a top score of 112 [[not out]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29568/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Fursdon |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> which was his only first-class [[century (cricket)|century]] and came against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] in [[The University Match (cricket)|The University Match]] of 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35326.html |title=Oxford University v Cambridge University, 1975 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium-fast]] bowling, he took 37 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 35.94, with best figures of 4 for 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29568/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by David Fursdon |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He also made a single first-class appearance for a combined [[Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team]] against the touring [[India national cricket team|Indians]] in 1974,<ref name="FCM"/> taking his career best bowling figures of 6 for 60 during the first innings of the match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34287.html |title=Oxford and Cambridge Universities v Indians, 1974 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In addition to playing first-class cricket while at Oxford, he also made four [[List A cricket|List A one-day]] appearances for the [[British Universities cricket team|Combined Universities cricket team]] which defeated two first class counties in the [[1975 Benson & Hedges Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29568/List_A_Matches.html |title=List A Matches played by David Fursdon |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He gained two cricket [[Blue_(university_sport)#University_of_Oxford|blues]] while at Oxford.<ref name="PRO"/>

==Civil service, teaching and later life==
After graduating from Oxford, Fursdon joined the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]], working at the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] in the Navy Department and on nuclear disarmament and as part of a British delegation at a [[United Nations]] Conference on Disarmament in [[Geneva]] in 1979. Fursdon left the civil service in 1979 and transferred to Devon to take on the challenge of resuscitating the Fursdon Estate. To help this he firstly became a teacher at [[Blundell's School]], serving subsequently on the school's board of governors for 27 years, the last 11 as Chairman.<ref name="PRO"/> He played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]] in 1981, making four appearances in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29568/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by David Fursdon |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-01 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

After attending the [[Royal Agricultural University]] (RAU) in 1984/6 (becoming an honorary Fellow in 2016), he qualified as a rural surveyor and worked as an equity partner; land agent and property auctioneer at Stags until 2003. He was Board Chairman (2003-5) and then President (2005-7) of the [[Country Land and Business Association]] (CLA), was a Commissioner of the Affordable Rural Housing Commission in 2005/6 and was a member of the Board of both the [[Crown Estate]] (2008-16) and [[English Heritage]] (2010-14).<ref name="PRO"/>

He volunteered as chairman of the SW Board for the [[London 2012]] Olympic Games which oversaw the torch relay in the SW and the sailing competition at Weymouth and Portland; as chair of the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|DEFRA]]/Industry Future of Farming Review in 2013 looking at opportunities for New Entrants in Agriculture and as Chair of the SW Rural Productivity Commission for the four SW LEPs in 2015. Other voluntary roles include Trustee on the Board of the [[National Trust]] (from 2016); Trustee of the [[Prince's Countryside Fund]] (from 2019), rural non-executive for the [[Duchy of Cornwall]] (from 2008) and initially working on the agricultural skills agenda and then as the first Chairman of TIAH (The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture).

In 2014 he became Chairman of Dyson Farming and in 2017, a Commissioner and subsequently (2019) a Trustee of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.

He was awarded an honorary DSc at [[Harper Adams University]] in 2017; appointed [[High Sheriff of Devon]] for 2009/10 and the [[Lord Lieutenant of Devon]] from 2015.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61207|date=22 April 2015|page=7482}}</ref> With his wife, Catriona, he has three sons and five grandchildren.<ref name="PEER"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=13228}}

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