John Alfred Healing (14 June 1873 – 4 July 1933) was an English cricketer.John Healing, CricInfo. Retrieved 9 October 2025. A left-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club between 1899 and 1906.John Healing, CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
Career Born at Forthampton near Tewkesbury in 1873, Healing was educated at Clifton College"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p145: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948 and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University in May 1894, playing against AJ Webbe's XI and Yorkshire.First-class matches played by John Healing, CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 October 2025. He played a match for Gloucestershire against Dublin University the following month, and played for the Straits Settlements against Hong Kong and Shanghai in November 1897.Other matches played by John Healing, CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
He returned to play in England, playing sporadically for Gloucestershire between 1899 and 1906. In 1899, he played two County Championship matches against Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire, followed by five more county championship matches in 1901, his busiest season. He played against South Africa in 1904, and played his final two first-class matches, against Cambridge University and Somerset in June 1906.
Healing saved in the British Army during World War I. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange. He died at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk in 1933 aged 60.
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