Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, known as "JEK", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
Background
Studd was born at Tedworth House, Tidworth, Wiltshire. He married, firstly, Hilda Proctor-Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet He married, secondly, Princess Alexandra Lieven, daughter of Prince Paul Lieven, on 18 June 1924.
Career
And Honorary Catherine Esther Waldegrave, on 10 December 1884. He died in Marylebone, London, on 14 January 1944, at age 85. Children of Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet and Hilda Proctor-Beauchamp:
Sir Eric Studd, 2nd Baronet b.
10 June 1887, daughter
1975
Ronald Granville Studd b. 6 September 1889, daughter 9 January 1956
Reverend Lionel Fairfax Studd b. 16 May 1891, daughter 15 February 1915
Bernard Cyril Studd b.
24 August 1892, daughter
30 March 1962
Vera Constance Victoria Studd b. 14 June 1897
Cricketing Studds
Sir Kynaston was the eldest but the last of the famous three Studd Brothers who captained Cambridge in consecutive seasons who also later gained high renown in his other walks of life before his death on 14 January 1944. At Eton, Kynaston was never on the losing side in the needle matches against Harrow and Winchester.
In the match Kynaston scored 6 and 66, G B. 42 and 48, C. T. 118 and 17 not out.
When Cambridge batted a second time requiring 165 runs for victory, the two elder brothers put up 106. Olympics
With the 1908 London Games being the first true Summer Olympics to feature a parade of nations, cricketer Kynaston Studd can be said to be the first person to carry the flag for Great Britain at an Olympic event.
However, cricket was only played at the 1900 Olympic Games (see: Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics) and Studd was therefore not a competitor. After serving as Sheriff of London for 1922-1923, he was knighted in 1923 and became Lord Mayor of London in 1928.
He was created Baronet at the end of his official year.
When President of the Master Control Console in September 1930 he gave a banquet at Merchant Taylors" Hall to the Australian team captained by West. M. Woodfull. Canon F. H. Gillingham, the old Dulwich College and Essex batsman, in his address at the Memorial Service in Saint Paul"s Cathedral, said that after coming down from Cambridge Kynaston realised that games were only a preparation for sterner duties, and in his presence it was easier for men to be good and harder to be bad. "Everything he touched he lifted up."
His great-nephew Sir Peter Malden Studd was also Lord Mayor of London from 1970-1972.
The Studd family is also believed to be descended from William the Conqueror.
Membership
After leaving Cambridge, where he was a member of the University Pitt Club, Kynaston played occasionally for Middlesex, but spent most of his time on business and the Royal Polytechnic Institute where he was President from 1903 until his death.