Wing Gillette

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Wing Gillette
Personal information
Full name
E. S. Gillette
Born1916 or 1917
British Guiana
Died(1996-09-08)8 September 1996 (aged 79)
Florida, United States
Umpiring information
Tests  umpired5 (1948–1958)
Source: Cricinfo, 6 July 2013

E. S. "Wing" Gillette (born 1916 or 1917, died 8 September 1996) was a cricket umpire from British Guiana. He stood in five Test matches played by West Indies between 1948 and 1958. [1] He umpired 14 first-class matches, all of them at the Bourda ground in Georgetown, between October 1947 and March 1958. [2]

Gillette, of Chinese background, worked as a commission agent in Georgetown. He captained the British Guiana cricket club in Georgetown until he retired from playing in 1954 in order to concentrate on umpiring. [3] He later moved to Florida, where he lived in Orlando and worked as an importer. He died there in September 1996, aged 79. [4]

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References

  1. "Wing Gillette". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  2. "Wing Gillette as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. Beames, Percy (26 April 1955). "Chinese to Make Test History". The Age. p. 16. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  4. "Obituaries", Orlando Sentinel , 10 September 1996.