Robert Summerhayes

Robert Currie Summerhayes OBE (13 March 1903 — 7 June 1983) was an English first-class cricketer.

Summerhayes was born in British India at Quetta in March 1903. He was educated in England at St Lawrence College, before matriculating to Brasenose College, Oxford.[1] After graduating from Oxford, Summerhayes returned to India. While there, he played in ten first-class cricket matches for the Europeans cricket team between 1926 and 1938, with nine of the matches coming in the Bombay Pentangular.[2] He scored 379 runs in these matches at an average of 19.94, with two half centuries and one century;[3] his century, a score of 109, came opening the batting against the Parsees in 1936.[4] Summerhayes was a volunteer in the Bombay Battalion, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1931.[5]

Summerhayes was employed by the Burmah–Shell Oil Company and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours.[6] With his wife, he returned to England from Rawalpindi in the early 1950s,[7] where he became a dairy farmer at Mayfield, Sussex. He was prosecuted and fined £10 at Lewes Magistrates Courts in March 1960, having pleaded guilty to selling milk to which water had been added.[8] Summerhayes died at Mayfield in June 1983.