Michael Keeling

Michael Edward Allis Keeling (6 November 1925 – 28 July 2017) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Sir John Keeling, he was born at Westminster in November 1925.[1] He was educated at Eton College, before briefly serving as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards following the Second World War in October 1945.[2] After serving in Allied-occupied Germany, he returned to England, where he went up to Christ Church, Oxford.[3] While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket on four occasions for Oxford University in 1948–49.[4] He scored 67 runs in his four matches for Oxford, with a high score of 40.[5] He also toured Ireland with the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948, playing a single first-class match against the Ireland cricket team at Dublin.[4]

He took part in the Keeling family tradition of fielding a cricket eleven formed of members of the Keeling family, with the family playing an annual match against the village of Sedlescombe.[1] Keeling died in July 2017 at Battle, Sussex.