James Souter
James Stewart Souter is a Scottish former first-class cricketer.
The son of the Scottish colonial administrator Sir Edward Souter, he was born at Kanpur in British India. He was educated in England at Haileybury, before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1942. His studies at Oxford were interrupted by the ongoing Second World War, in which he served in the latter stages of with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, enlisting as a pilot officer in April 1944. He served with the RAFVR until 1948, the year in which he was promoted to flying officer. He returned to Brasenose College in 1948, playing three first-class cricket matches for Oxford University against the Free Foresters, Lancashire and Middlesex in 1948. He scored 47 runs in his three matches, with a high score of 30. His brother, Ian, was killed in action during the war.
