Iain Campbell

Iain Parry Campbell (5 February 1928 – 31 May 2015) was an English sportsman and schoolteacher. Campbell was born in England and later taught and lived in Rhodesia and then New Zealand, where he retired. He played hockey for England and both cricket and rugby union for Kent as well as being a good all-round sportsman.

Sporting career Campbell was educated at Canford School and Trinity College, Oxford. At Canford he excelled at rugby union, hockey, squash, tennis, athletics and cricket, captaining the school first team in all six sports. As captain of the cricket team in 1946, his final year, he scored 1,277 runs at an average of 116, including an innings of 222 not out in 150 minutes and another of 237 in 106 minutes. He was seen as one of the most promising schoolboy batsmen in the country.

He was unable to repeat his schoolboy success at first-class level. In one match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1946, and 18 matches for Oxford University between 1949 and 1951, he played chiefly as a wicket-keeper. He toured Canada with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1951, playing in the first-class match against the Canadian national team, and played his final first-class match against Ireland in Dublin in 1954.

Teaching career Campbell became a schoolteacher. He taught at King's School, Worcester, Rugby and Cranleigh in England, before becoming headmaster of St Stephen's College in Rhodesia from 1968 to 1973.

He was headmaster of King's College, Auckland, from 1973 until 1987, when he retired.

He later lived in Taupō, New Zealand, and died at home on 31 May 2015. He and his wife Anne were married for 62 years.