Bernard Elgood

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Bernard Cyril Elgood

| birth_date = 10 March 1922

| birth_place = Hampstead, Middlesex, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1997|7|10|1922|3|10}}

| death_place = Pauntley Place, Gloucestershire,
England

| nickname = Bruno

| family =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Cambridge University

| year1 = 1948

| club2 = Berkshire

| year2 = 1949

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 14

| runs1 = 631

| bat avg1 = 33.21

| 100s/50s1 = 2/2

| top score1 = 127*

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–

| date = 13 February

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12638.html Cricinfo

}}

Bernard Cyril "Bruno" Elgood MBE (10 March 1922 – 10 July 1997) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Elgood was born at Hampstead and educated at Bradfield College.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29251/all_teams.html |title=Teams Bruno Elgood played for |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-access=subscription}} The completion of his studies at Bradfield coincided with the Second World War, with Elgood enlisting in the British Army with the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant in November 1941.{{London Gazette |issue=35377|date=9 December 1941|startpage=7047|supp=y}} He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in January 1945, antedated to September 1944.{{London Gazette |issue=36892|date=12 January 1945|startpage=393|supp=y}}

Following the war he attended Pembroke College, Cambridge.{{cite book |title=The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991 |page=407 |isbn=978-0-521-43468-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ |language=en}} He debuted in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Lancashire at Cambridge in 1948, a season in which he made all twelve of his first-class appearances for Cambridge in.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29251/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Bruno Elgood |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-access=subscription}} He scored 531 runs across these twelve matches, averaging 35.40.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29251/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Bruno Elgood |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-access=subscription}} He scored two centuries against Sussex and Middlesex,{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228769.html |title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1997 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=13 February 2019}} with his highest score of 127 not out coming against the former.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18409.html |title=Cambridge University v Sussex, 1948 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-access=subscription}} Still serving in the army following the war, Elgood also played two first-class matches in 1948 for the Combined Services cricket team. In 1949, he played minor counties cricket for Berkshire, making five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29251/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Bruno Elgood |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=13 February 2019 |url-access=subscription}}

Elgood was promoted to the rank of captain in March 1949,{{London Gazette |issue=38560|date=15 March 1949|startpage=1317|supp=y}} with promotion to major in March 1956.{{London Gazette |issue=40739|date=23 March 1956|startpage=1803|supp=y}} He was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1959 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=41589|date=30 December 1958|startpage=7|supp=y}} He was made a lieutenant colonel in January 1965.{{London Gazette |issue=43551|date=15 January 1965|startpage=705|supp=y}} Three years later he was made a colonel in June 1968.{{London Gazette |issue=44625|date=28 June 1968|startpage=7344|supp=y}} He was promoted to the rank of brigadier in January 1971.{{London Gazette |issue=45271|date=1 January 1971|startpage=117|supp=y}} Elgood retired from military service in March 1976.{{London Gazette |issue=46856|date=23 March 1976|startpage=4331|supp=y}} He died at Pauntley Place in Gloucestershire in July 1997.