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Sydney George Fairbairn MC (13 October 1892 – 19 January 1943) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sydney George Fairbairn )〕 he was born in Cape Colony, South Africa. Fairbairn made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Barbados, during the MCC tour of the West Indies in early 1913. The remainder of his 7 first-class matches came on this tour, with his final appearance coming against British Guiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-Class Matches played by Sydney Fairbairn )〕 In his 8 first-class appearances on tour, he scored 241 runs at an average of 20.08,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Sydney Fairbairn )〕 which included a single half century score against British Guiana, in which he made an unbeaten 62.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Guiana v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1912/13 )〕 As an all-rounder, he took 12 wickets at a bowling average of 31.08, with best figures of 3/55.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Sydney Fairbairn )〕 In that year's English cricket season, Fairbairn made his Minor Counties Championship for Buckinghamshire against Wiltshire. He made 6 further Minor Counties Championship matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Wiltshire in 1914.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Sydney Fairbairn )〕 During the course of the First World War he had a short-lived marriage to Nancy Cunard, a writer, heiress and political activist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nancy Cunard )〕 Their marriage lasted less than two years before they separated. In 1926 Fairbairn married Angela Fane who survived him. Fairbairn joined the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars before the start of the First World War and was later wounded at Gallipoli.〔 He joined up again in 1916 this time with the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919.〔 He re-joined the Guards in the Second World War and died on active service in London on 19 January 1943.〔 He was buried at St Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire.〔 ==Honours and awards== *10 December 1919 Lt Sydney George Fairbairn of the Grenadier Guards (Special Reserve) and attached to the 3rd Battalion is awarded the Military Cross: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Fairbairn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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