John Pember
English cricketer
Died when: 66 years 231 days (799 months)Star Sign: Gemini
John Devereaux Dubricious Pember (8 June 1940 – 25 January 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1968 to 1971.He was born in Creaton, Northamptonshire, and attended Wellingborough School, where he played in the first eleven.
A club cricketer and landowner in Northamptonshire, he joined Leicestershire and made his first-class debut in 1968 at the age of 28.
He appeared intermittently for the county over the next three years, playing 24 first-class matches and 10 one-day matches as a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium.
His highest score was 53, batting at number 11 against Northamptonshire in 1970, and his best bowling figures were 5 for 45 (followed by 2 for 45 in the second innings) in an innings victory over Somerset in 1968.
