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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|English cricketer and solicitor}}<br />
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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
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| country = England<br />
| full_name = James Louis Theodore Guise<br />
| birth_date = 26 August 1910<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1996|6|18|1910|8|26}}<br />
| death_place = [[Lingfield, Surrey|Lingfield]], [[Surrey]], England<br />
| nickname = <br />
| family = [[John Dougal Guise|John Guise, Sr.]] (father)<br>[[John Guise (cricketer)|John Guise, Jr.]] (brother)<br>[[Patrick Brett]] (brother-in-law)<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = [[Slow left-arm orthodox]]<br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = <br />
| year1 = <br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 18<br />
| bat avg1 = 9.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 11<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–<br />
| date = 24 February<br />
| year = 2019<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13484.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
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'''James Louis Theodore Guise''' (26 August 1910 &ndash; 18 June 1996) was an English first-class cricketer and solicitor.<br />
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Guise was born at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in [[British India]] to [[John Dougal Guise]], an East India merchant, and his wife Laura Lilian (nee Buckland).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Dhole |first=Pradip |date=2018-09-10 |title=John Lindsay Guise: The man who opened batting at Eden Gardens against MCC in 1926-27 |url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/john-lindsay-guise-the-man-who-opened-batting-at-eden-gardens-against-mcc-in-1926-27-744160/ |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=Cricket Country |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13586/13586.html |title=Player profile: John Guise |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-02-24 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was educated in England at [[Winchester College]], before going up to [[Trinity College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford University Calendar |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1935 |page=742 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So_cZreoj9gC}}</ref> After graduating from Trinity, Guise became a lawyer. He made one appearance in [[first-class cricket]] in 1937 for the [[Free Foresters Cricket Club|Free Foresters]] against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] at [[University Parks#Cricket ground|Oxford]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3341/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by James Guise |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-02-24 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, Guise was dismissed for 11 runs by [[Randle Darwall-Smith]] in the Free Foresters first-innings, while [[follow-on|following-on]] in their second-innings he was dismissed for 7 runs by the same bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16180.html |title=Oxford University v Free Foresters, 1937 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-02-24 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><br />
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He continued to practice law until his retirement in 1969.<ref name="LAW">{{cite book |title=The Solicitors' Journal |publisher=The Journal |year=1970 |page=278 |volume=113th volume |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fG44AQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was a past president of the Holborn Law Society.<ref name="LAW"/> Guise died in June 1996 at [[Lingfield, Surrey]]. His brother, [[John Guise (cricketer)|John Jr.]], was also a first-class cricketer.<br />
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His father, John Dougal Guise, had also played at least two first-class matches, for Gentlemen of India against Oxford Authentics in Delhi in 1902-03, and for MC Bird’s XI against Maharajah of Cooch-Behar’s XI, at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, in 1918-19.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cricinfo|id=13484}}<br />
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