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{{short description|English cricketer}}
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{{Use British English|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = James William Anson
| nickname =
| birth_date = 9 January 1915
| birth_place = [[Mardan]], [[North-West Frontier Province]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|1|14|1915|1|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Maidstone]], [[Kent]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| family = [[Kenneth Anson]] (brother)
| club1 = [[Sindh cricket team|Sindh]]
| year1 = 1938/39–1939/40
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 6
| runs1 = 162
| bat avg1 = 16.20
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 49
| deliveries1 = 18
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 28 November
| year = 2022
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/james-anson-26410 Cricinfo
}}

'''James William Anson''' {{postnominal|CBE}} (9 January 1915 — 14 January 1995) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and businessman.

Anson was born in [[British India]] at [[Mardan]] in January 1915. He was educated in Scotland at [[Fettes College]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1618226688/fettescom/o5jdits81opcgwqw0bk9/SadlyDepartedList-April2021.pdf|title=Sadly Departed - April 2021|page=85|publisher=[[Fettes College]]|accessdate=28 November 2022}}</ref> before matriculating to [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Caius College, Cambridge]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=List of Members |date=1982 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=25 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/List_of_Members_Cambridge_University/LjVSAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> After graduating from Cambridge, he went to [[British India]] where he worked in the shipping industry. While in India, he played [[first-class cricket]] on six occasions from 1938 to 1947. His first two appearances came for [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]], with his remaining four matches coming for the personal eleven's of [[Homi Maneck Mehta|Sir Homi Mehta]] and [[K. C. Ibrahim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12626/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by James Anson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=28 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In his six matches, he scored 162 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 16.20, with a highest score of 49.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12626/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by James Anson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=28 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Prior to going to India, he had played second eleven cricket for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] from 1933 to 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12626/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by James Anson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=28 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> During the [[Second World War]], he was emergency commissioned with the rank of [[Second_lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_other_Commonwealth_countries|second lieutenant]] into the [[British Indian Army]] as of 25 June 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34954|date=27 September 1940|page=5724}}</ref> Anson was later made a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the [[1969 Birthday Honours]], as which point he was the managing director of Mackinnon Mackenzie and Company in [[Mumbai|Bombay]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44863|date=6 June 1969|page=5979|supp=y}}</ref> He returned to England in his later life, where he died at [[Maidstone]] in January 1995. His brother, [[Kenneth Anson|Kenneth]], was also a first-class cricketer.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=26410}}

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[[Category:1915 births]]
[[Category:1995 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Mardan]]
[[Category:People educated at Fettes College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:English businesspeople in shipping]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Sindh cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]

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