Granger Boston


Granger Farwell Boston was an English cricketer and politician.
Boston was born in Liverpool. After serving in the Second World War from 1939 to 1943, he read history at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a third in 1947. He played three first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1946. Upon graduation he lectured at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, taught history at Clifton College and Oundle School, and was latterly a director of a tannery in Runcorn.
Boston was the Conservative Party candidate for Gloucestershire West in the 1950 general election and for Crewe in the 1955 general election. He killed himself with a shotgun at his London apartment in 1958.