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{{short description|English cricketer, soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Peter Bosworth Kirkwood Gracey
| birth_date = 12 December 1921
| birth_place = [[Bannu]], [[North-West Frontier Province]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|9|13|1921|12|12}}
| death_place = [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]], [[Sussex]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Leg break]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1945/46
| club2 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year2 = 1947–1948
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 5
| runs1 = 176
| bat avg1 = 22.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 61
| deliveries1 = 86
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 27.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/21
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–
| date = 24 March
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13528.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Peter Bosworth Kirkwood Gracey''' (12 December 1921 – 13 September 2006) was an English [[British Army]] officer and sportsman.

The son of Hugh Malcolm Kirkwood Gracey, a soldier in the [[British Indian Army]], and Elsie Marian Bosworth, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Bannu]] in December 1921.<ref>{{Lives of WWI |id= 7683408 | name= Elsie Marian Bosworth }}</ref> He was educated in England at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]].<ref name=wisdenobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/292073.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 2007 |work=Cricinfo |date=23 April 2007 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=2020-03-23}}</ref> Gracey served in the [[Second World War]] with the [[Royal Engineers]], being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in June 1942.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35603|date=19 June 1942|page=2748|supp=y}}</ref> While serving in India, he made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in a [[Madras Presidency Matches|1945–46 Madras Presidency Match]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13550/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Peter Gracey |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-03-23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Returning to England after the war, he went up to [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] as a Heath Harrison Exhibitioner in 1946.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford University Calendar |date=1948 |publisher=University of Oxford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voO9e6pNKREC |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Oxford, he was awarded [[Blue (university sport)|blues]] in [[golf]] and [[field hockey|hockey]],<ref name=wisdenobit/> and made four appearances in first-class cricket for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]], playing three matches in 1947 and a single match in 1948.<ref name="FCM"/> He scored 176 runs in first-class cricket, with his highest score of 61 coming for the Europeans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13550/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Peter Gracey |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-03-23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was later a member of the [[Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Wax Chandlers of London |first=John |last=Dummelow |page=174 |date=1973 |publisher=Phillimore |isbn=9780850331004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3sFAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> Gracey died at [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]] in September 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/4964/gracey |title=Gracey - Death Announcements |date=September 2006 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |accessdate=2020-03-23}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=13528}}

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[[Category:1921 births]]
[[Category:2006 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Bannu District]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
[[Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire]]
[[Category:Royal Engineers officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Oxford University cricketers]]
[[Category:English male golfers]]
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[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]

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