Mark John Hayley Weedon (born 28 October 1940) is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1961 and 1962.
Weedon was born in Singapore after his mother had been evacuated from Hong Kong, where his father, Martin Pryce Weedon, was a captain in the Middlesex Regiment.Tony Banham, "The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940", PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, 2014, p. 84. His parents were separated and estranged during the Second World War, and later made new marriages.Banham, pp. 259–60.
He attended Harrow School before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge.Wisden 1963, p. 355. He played one full season for Cambridge in 1962, when he took 36 wickets with his medium-pace bowling and was noted for his perseverance.Wisden 1963, pp. 717–18. His best bowling figures came in the opening match of the 1962 season when he took 5 for 67 against Surrey.
After receiving an MA from Cambridge, Weedon earned an MBA from Harvard and began a career in business as a consultant and executive. He founded and ran the company BoardSearch, which specialised in senior executive appointments.
Weedon married Julie McLeod in May 1971. He is a cousin of the actresses Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills. His mother and their mother, Mary Hayley Bell, were sisters.
References
External links
Mark Weedon at CricketArchive