Michael Keeling
Michael Edward Allis Keeling was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Sir John Keeling, he was born at Westminster in November 1925. He was educated at Eton College, before briefly serving as a second lieuteant in the Grenadier Guards following the Second World War in October 1945. After serving in Allied-occupied Germany, he returned to England where he went up to Christ Church, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket on four occasions for Oxford University in 1948–49. He scored 67 runs in his four matches for Oxford, with a high score of 40. He also toured Ireland with the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948, playing a single first-class match against the Ireland cricket team at Dublin.
He took part in the Keeling family tradition of fielding a cricket eleven formed of members of the Keeling family, with the family playing an annual match against the village of Sedlescombe. Keeling died in July 2017 at Battle, Sussex.
