Donald Pratt

Donald Montague McVeagh Pratt (born 9 July 1935) is an Irish businessman and former first-class cricketer and squash player.

Biography Born at Dublin, Pratt was educated in the city at Sandford Park School and St Columba's College. He later studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he played cricket for Dublin University Cricket Club. He played five further first-class matches for Ireland, appearing against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1964, the touring New Zealanders, Scotland, and Hampshire in 1965, and the MCC in 1966. He had just two innings of note where he passed fifty, and representing Ireland at international level.

He stopped working as a solicitor in 1974, when he and his wife purchased Avoca Handweavers, a County Wicklow business dating back to 1723. By 2006, the company had eight stores in Ireland and one in the United States, and employed 475 people.