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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = John Alexander Gordon Charles Law
| birth_date = 25 March 1923
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysore]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|8|19|1923|3|25}}
| death_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1940/41–1944/45
| club2 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]]
| year2 = 1940/41–1941/42
| club3 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year3 = 1949
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 9
| runs1 = 194
| bat avg1 = 11.41
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 35
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 16/3
| date = 5 July
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16413.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''John Alexander Gordon Charles Law''' (25 March 1923 – 19 August 2004) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er.

Law was born in [[British India]] at [[Bangalore]] in March 1923. He was the elder son of Harry Law, a forester from Glasgow, and his wife Phyllis Margaret (nee Taylor). His younger brother Robert died in infancy and he had a younger sister Margaret (b 1929).he was educated at Edinburgh Academy.

He made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] in British India for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] in the 1940/41 [[Madras Presidency Matches]]. In early 1941, he made two first-class appearances for [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13899/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by John Law |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-07-05 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Law served in the [[Second World War]] after gaining an emergency commission in the [[Royal Artillery]] in March 1941.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35962|date=30 March 1943|page=1512|supp=y}}</ref> Later in 1941, he made a third appearance for Madras in the Ranji Trophy, and further appearances for the Europeans followed in the 1942/43, 1943/44 and 1944/45 Presidency Matches.<ref name="FCM"/>

After the war, Law studied Jurisprudence in England at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]].<ref name="PRO">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13899/13899.html |title=Player profile: John Law |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-07-05 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made two first-class appearances for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] and the touring [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealanders]] at [[University Parks#Cricket ground|Oxford]] in 1949.<ref name="FCM"/> In all he played nine first-class matches as a [[wicket-keeper]], scoring 194 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 11.41 with a highest score of 35. Behind the [[stumps]] he took 16 catches and made three stumpings.<ref name="PRO"/>

After leaving Oxford, he trained as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co in London and worked for the same firm in Paris and Geneva. He emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1958. His subsequent working life was spent with Canadian National Railways. He never married and had no children.

In 1999 Law fell down the outside stairs at his house in Montreal and broke his neck. He used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Law died in Canada at [[Montreal]] in August 2004.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=16413}}

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