| Brian Gidney | |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Brian Bruce Gidney |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Kingston upon Thames, London, England |
| Death Place: | Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Club1: | Cambridge University |
| Year1: | 1963 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 16 |
| Bat Avg1: | 8.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 9 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
| Date: | 26 January |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13603.html Cricinfo |
Brian Bruce Gidney (6 April 1938 — 18 March 2019) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
Gidney was born at Kingston upon Thames in April 1938. He was initially educated at Arundel House School in Surbiton, before receiving a scholarship to Kingston Grammar School.[1] From there he matriculated to Queens' College at the University of Cambridge,[2] following a spell in the Royal Air Force doing National Service.[1]
While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1963, making a single appearance against the touring Pakistan Eaglets at Fenner's.[3] Batting twice in the match as an opening batsman, he was dismissed in the Cambridge first innings for 7 runs by Asif Iqbal, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 9 runs by Farooq Hamid.[4] Gidney also played field hockey for Cambridge and was selected for four years running in the Varsity Match against Oxford.[1]
After graduating from Cambridge, Gidney accepted a teaching job at Charterhouse School, where he taught for around a year.[1] In 1965, he was offered a two-year teaching job at Hale School in Perth, Australia, which he accepted. It was there that he met his future wife, a school nurse from a competing school, which led him to remain in Australia and become Head of Economics at the school. He remained at Hale School until 1985, before taking up a similar role at Wesley College, Perth.
Gidney was successful as a junior cricket coach, managing biennial tours of a Combined Public Schoolboys of Western Australia XI to England. For his services to coaching cricket, Gidney was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.[1] Alongside his teaching, he was also a part-time lecturer and tutor at the University of Western Australia. He retired from teaching in 1997 and from his part-time lecturing in 2012. Gidney died at the Perth suburb of Subiaco in March 2019.[1]