Roualeyn Cumming

Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming CIE (2 November 1891 – 6 February 1981) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial police officer.

The son of R. C. Cumming, he was born at Calne in November 1891. Cumming was educated at St Paul's School, London.[1] He joined the Colonial Police Service in British India in 1911 as an assistant superintendent.[2] Cumming played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans against the Indians at Madras in the 1922 Madras Presidency Match.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for a single run by M. Venkataramanjulu, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by T. Vasu Nayudu.[4]

In the colonial police he was promoted to superintendent in April 1922, with him being appointed a deputy inspector-general of police in August 1935. In 1937, he was appointed inspector-general of police and joint secretary in the Home Department of Assam Province.[2] Cumming was made a Companion to the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours and was decorated with the King's Police and Fire Service Medal during the Second World War.[2][5] Cumming died in England in February 1981 at Droxford, Hampshire.