Jack Mendl

Jack Francis Mendl (6 December 1911 – 27 October 2001) was a first-class cricketer and educator.

Mendl was born in the Buenos Aires suburb of Hurlingham, where his father was a grain trader. He was sent to England, along with his brother Derek Mendl, where the two were educated at Repton School. He was denied the opportunity to play first-class cricket for Oxford University due to a skiing accident. He served with the South Wales Borderers in the Second World War, enlisting as a second lieutenant.

He began teaching at the Dragon School in Oxford in 1945, and for the next decade he opened the batting for Oxfordshire during the summer holidays. He made his debut in first-class cricket when he was selected to play for the Minor Counties cricket team against Yorkshire at Lord's in 1949. He accepted a teaching post in Scotland at the Edinburgh Academy in 1950.

He taught at the Edinburgh Academy until his retirement in 1977, serving as a housemaster of Dundas House from 1962 to 1965 and Mackenzie House from 1965 to 1972. Following his retirement, Mendl remained in the Trinity area of Edinburgh and became a keen golfer. Mendl died at Edinburgh in October 2001. He was survived by his wife Betty, whom he had met shortly after arriving at the Edinburgh Academy and married in 1952, and their two children. He was also Chairman of the Cricket Society of Scotland prior to Fraser Simm.