Ernest Edwin Coombs OBE (17 December 1875 — 3 April 1960) was an English cricketer.
Coombs was born at Croydon in December 1875. He would spend much of his adult life in British India, where he played first-class cricket in the Bombay Presidency matches for the Europeans cricket team on six occasions between August 1901 and September 1918.[1] Playing as a bowler, he took 19 wickets in his six matches an average of 14.73.[2] He took the majority of his wickets in two matches; against the Parsees in 1903 he took five wickets,[3] while against the same opposition in 1904 he took 11 wickets.[4] Coombs was a part–time officer in the Indian Defence Force during the First World War, holding the rank of lieutenant in January 1919.[5] By 1925, he was employed as a Superintendent of Government Printing and Stationery at Bombay. In recognition of his services, Coombs was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1925 Birthday Honours.[6] He later retired to England, where he died at Hove in April 1960.
References
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Ernest Coombs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Ernest Coombs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1903/04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1904/05". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "No. 31131". The London Gazette. 17 January 1919. p. 909.
- ^ "No. 33053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1925. p. 3778.