Chris Pyemont

{{short description|English cricketer and educator}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Christopher Patrick Pyemont

| birth_date = 4 January 1948

| birth_place = Etchingham, Sussex, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|5|4|1948|1|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Eastbourne, Sussex, England

| nickname =

| family = James Pyemont (son)
Neil Lenham (son-in-law)

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox

| role =

| club1 = Cambridge University

| year1 = 1967

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 14

| runs1 = 516

| bat avg1 = 22.43

| 100s/50s1 = –/2

| top score1 = 61

| deliveries1 = 173

| wickets1 = 3

| bowl avg1 = 27.66

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 2/7

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 11 January

| year = 2022

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19093.html Cricinfo

}}

Christopher Patrick Pyemont (17 January 1948 — 4 May 2017) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.

Pyemont was born in the Sussex village of Etchingham in January 1948. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge.{{cite book|title=The Cambridge University List of Members for the Year 1991|date=1991|page=1102|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521434683 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ|language=en}} While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1967, making fourteen appearances.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32213/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Chris Pyemont|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-12|url-access=subscription}} Playing as a batsman in the Cambridge side, scored 516 runs at an average of 22.43, recording two half centuries and a highest score of 61.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32213/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Chris Pyemont|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-12|url-access=subscription}} A talented sportsman at Cambridge, he gained blue's in cricket, hockey, skiing and rackets.{{cite news|url=https://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/former-head-bedes-school-will-be-sadly-missed-1123134|title=Former head of Bede's School will be sadly missed|date=2017-05-12|work=Eastbourne Herald|accessdate=2022-01-12}}

After graduating from Cambridge, he was a direct entry into the Royal Armoured Corps as a second lieutenant in February 1968.{{London Gazette|issue=44562|date=5 April 1968|page=4155|supp=y}} His commission lasted until February 1976, when he relinquished his commission.{{London Gazette|issue=46825|date=16 February 1976|page=2419|supp=y}} After leaving the military, Pyemont began a career in teaching. He was appointed to Bede's School in Eastbourne as a maths and games teacher in 1981. His brother, Peter, had been head of the school since 1964. For several years he ran both the boy's and girl's boarding houses. He succeeded his brother as headmaster in 1998, where he oversaw modernisation of the school's facilities. He stood down as headmaster in 2007, but continued to teach maths and games. Pyemont died in May 2017, following a long battle with cancer. His son, James, who also a first-class cricketer, as was his son-in-law Neil Lenham.