Ian Thwaites

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Ian Thwaites, full name Ian Guy Thwaites, was an English doctor and cricketer. He was born on 4 March 1943 in Brighton, England, the youngest of four children of Guy Thwaites, a local GP. He studied Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and played cricket for Sussex Second XI and Cambridge University, earning a Blue in 1964.

After medical training at Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, Thwaites became a doctor. He worked in Africa before moving to Horsham, where he spent more than 40 years as a GP and later as a private sports physician. The cricketer Christopher Martin-Jenkins described being treated by him.

Thwaites was a long-time member of Horsham Cricket Club and helped start Keep Southwater Green. His son Guy Thwaites also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University. Ian Thwaites died of prostate cancer on 30 September 2015, aged 72.