Eliot Druce
Eliot Albert Cross Druce was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1897 and 1913. He was born at Weybridge in Surrey, the son of Albert Druce, and grew up at Thornhill in Sevenoaks in Kent.
Education
Druce attended The Beacon, now called New Beacon, in Sevenoaks, Marlborough School and then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895. He took a law degree, graduating in 1898 and becoming a solicitor in 1901. He was later employed in the offices of the Duchy of Lancaster.Cricketing career
Druce did not play for the Marlborough cricket team but made his first-class cricket debut for Cambridge University against Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1897. He played a total of three matches for the university and was awarded a hockey Blue in 1898.He played one match for MCC against Cambridge in 1898, before making an appearance for Kent [County Cricket Club] in the 1898 County Championship against Sussex at Catford. He played twice more for Kent in the 1900 County Championship and over a decade later he made three first-class appearances for Free Foresters in matches against Oxford University and Cambridge University. Druce also played a number of minor matches for Kent Second XI, MCC and Fee Foresters, appearing as late as 1925 for MCC.