Lewis Dorey

{{Short description|English cricketer and printer}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Lewis Dorey

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Lewis Hugh John Dorey

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|10|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|7|31|1901|10|23|df=yes}}

| death_place = Belmont, Surrey, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1912

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 0

| bat avg1 = 0.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 0

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 12 December

| year = 2009

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11922.html Cricinfo

}}

Lewis Hugh John Dorey {{postnominals|MBE}} (23 October 1901 — 31 July 1958) was an English first-class cricketer and printer.

The son of the printing press owner Henry Vaughan Dorey, he was born at St Albans in October 1901. Dorey was educated at Harrow School,{{cite book |url=https://www.harrowschool-ww1.org.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=%2fDOCS%2fHarrowSchoolRegister1885-1925.pdf&origFilename=|title=The Harrow School Register, 1845-1929|first=J. H.|last=Stogdon|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|location=London|page=349|date=1925}} before matriculating to Pembroke College, Oxford.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b1JRhk7TEyMC|title=Oxford University Calendar|publisher=University of Oxford|location=London|page=585|date=1929}} He later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Leicestershire at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the 1912 County Championship.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6567/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Hugh Dorey|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=8 May 2023|url-access=subscription}} He batted twice in the match and was dismissed without scoring in both innings, by Ewart Astill and Haydon Smith.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11560.html|title=Leicestershire v Hampshire, County Championship 1925|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=8 May 2023|url-access=subscription}}

Dorey later took over his father's editorship of the weekly magazine Lawn Tennis and Badminton. By 1939, he was in business as a printer with The Morland Press.{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYcAQAAMAAJ|title=Notices|work=Newspaper World|page=30|issue=2164–2190|date=1939|accessdate=8 May 2023}} During the Second World War, Dorey was a Divisional Officer (Chief Clerk) at the headquarters of the National Fire Service in London. For his service with the Fire Service during the Second World War, he was made an MBE in the 1946 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37412|date=28 December 1945|page=292|supp=y}} Dorey died in July 1958 at Belmont, Surrey.