Christopher Newton Thompson
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Full name | Christopher Lawton Newton Thompson | ||||||||||||||
Born | Kensington, London, England | 14 February 1919||||||||||||||
Died | 29 January 2002 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa | (aged 82)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
Relations | Ossie Newton-Thompson (brother) | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1939 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 7 July 2019 |
Christopher Lawton Newton Thompson MC (14 February 1919 – 29 January 2002) was an English-born South African soldier, sportsman, educationalist and anti-apartheid politician. He was the brother of Ossie Newton-Thompson.
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- South African cricketers
- Cambridge University cricketers
- 1919 births
- 2002 deaths
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- English emigrants to South Africa
- South African sportsperson-politicians
- South African cricket biography, 20th-century birth stubs