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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Trevor Spring
| country = England
| fullname = Trevor Coleridge Spring
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|3|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kidderpore]], [[Bengal]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|3|13|1882|3|6|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]]
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Not known
| club1 = [[British Army cricket team|Army]]
| year1 = 1912–1919
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year2 = 1909–1910
| type1 = First-class
| debutdate1 = 20 May
| debutyear1 = 1909
| debutfor1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| debutagainst1 = [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]]
| lastdate1 = 29 May
| lastyear1 = 1919
| lastfor1 = [[British Army cricket team|Army]]
| lastagainst1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 11
| runs1 = 324
| bat avg1 = 18.00
| 100s/50s1 = 1/0
| top score1 = 117
| deliveries1 = 84
| wickets1 = 3
| bowl avg1 = 23.66
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 3/59
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/0
| date = 15 December
| year = 2007
| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3825/3825.html CricketArchive
}}
[[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] '''Trevor Coleridge Spring''' {{Post-nominals|DSO}} (6 March 1882 – 13 March 1926) was an English [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/20319.html Cricinfo profile]</ref> A right-handed [[batsman]],<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3825/3825.html CricketArchive profile]</ref> he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] and the [[British Army cricket team|Army]] between 1909 and 1919. He also played [[Minor counties of English cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Devon County Cricket Club|Devon]].<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3825/all_teams.html Teams played for by Trevor Spring] at CricketArchive</ref>

==Early life==
Spring was born in [[Kidderpore]], [[Bengal]], [[British Raj|India]], a descendant of the Suffolk [[Spring family]]. He was the son of the Reverend Henry Coleridge Spring and Constance Paynter, his father being a Chaplain to the Bengal establishment. He had been educated at [[Blundell's School]] before entering the Army.<ref name="gazette" />

==Military career==
Spring was commissioned a [[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]] officer in the 4th Battalion, [[Somerset Light Infantry|The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)]], and embarked with the battalion for [[South Africa]] in March 1900, to serve in the [[Second Boer War]]. He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 4 February 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27417 |page=1886 |date=18 March 1902}}</ref> and returned with his battalion to the United Kingdom three months later.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War – Troops returning home|date=28 April 1902 |page=8 |issue=36753}}</ref> A commission into the regular army followed later that year, when he was appointed [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Hampshire Regiment|Hampshire Regiment]] on 3 September 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27470|page=5683|date=2 September 1902}}</ref> He became a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in March 1911.<ref>The VC and DSO, Volume III http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-VC-and-DSO-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page350.html</ref>

He fought in the [[First World War]], was promoted to major in 1917 and was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] that same year.<ref>The London Gazette, 26 November 1917 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30399/supplements/12316/page.pdf</ref> He temporarily commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment for several months in 1917.<ref name="gazette" />

==Cricket career==
Spring made his first-class debut for Somerset in a [[County Championship]] match against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] in [[1909 English cricket season|1909]]. He played four more County Championship matches that year, and played three more the following year.<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3825/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Trevor Spring] at CricketArchive</ref> In [[1912 English cricket season|1912]], he played his first first-class match for the Army, scoring 117 in the second [[Innings#Cricket|innings]] against the [[Royal Navy Cricket Club|Royal Navy]] at [[Lord's]].<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8684.html Scorecard] of Army v Royal Navy, 30 May 1912 at CricketArchive</ref> He played in the fixture again the following year.<ref name="FCM" />

He played his final first-class game in [[1919 English cricket season|1919]], for the Army against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]].<ref name="FCM" /> He later played twice for the [[Straits Settlements cricket team|Straits Settlements]] against the [[Federated Malay States cricket team|Federated Malay States]] in the 1920s.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3825/Other_matches.html Other matches played by Trevor Spring] at CricketArchive</ref>

==Family life==
In 1910, Spring married Gwladys Emma Griffith in [[Winchester]] and they had two children. Spring died in London in 1926 at [[King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes|King Edward VII's Hospital]] following an operation.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=North Devon Journal|title=Major Trevor Coleridge Spring, DSO|date=18 March 1916|page=4}}</ref> Spring caught a chill while watching a football match at Winchester and was taken to hospital. He had previously developed septic poisoning in his head while serving in [[Singapore]], and he died of septic pneumonia following the operation to deal with the problem.<ref name="gazette">{{cite news|newspaper=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette|title=Major T.C.Spring|date=16 March 1926}}</ref> On 16 March 1926 he was buried in [[Alwington]], [[Devon]] where his father was rector.

Both his siblings had also served in the Army. Geoffrey had been killed in the Boer War and Harold had died from enteric fever.<ref name="gazette" />

==References==
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[[Category:1882 births]]
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[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Straits Settlements cricketers]]
[[Category:Somerset cricketers]]
[[Category:Devon cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army cricketers]]
[[Category:Spring family|Trevor]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Royal Hampshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:People educated at Blundell's School]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in England]]
[[Category:Deaths from sepsis]]
[[Category:Somerset Light Infantry officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War]]
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]
[[Category:British people in colonial India]]

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