John Dew

Who was John Dew?

John Alexander Dew MBE was an English cricketer. Dew was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Horsham, Sussex.

Educated at Tonbridge School, Dew played cricket and rugby for the school, it was in rugby that he captained the school. From Tonbridge, he read medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. While at St Catharine's he played cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club, earning a wartime Blue. After leaving St Catharine's, he qualified as a medical practitioner at the Royal London Hospital.

In first-class cricket, Dew made two first-class appearances for Sussex in the 1947 County Championship against Worcestershire and Warwickshire, scoring a total of 51 runs at an average of 17.00, with a high score of 29, while behind the stumps he took a single catch and made a single stumping. Fourteen years later, he made a third and last appearance in first-class cricket, this time for L.C. Stevens' XI against Cambridge University at The Saffrons, Eastbourne, with Dew scoring 9 runs in the match, as well as taking 4 catches.