| Biography | Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE (26 July 1858 14 January 1944), known as "JEK", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
After leaving Cambridge Kynaston played occasionally for Middlesex, but spent most of his time on business and the Royal Polytechnic Institute where he was President from 1903 until his death.
After serving as Sheriff of London for 1922-23, he was knighted in 1923 and became Lord Mayor of London in 1928. He was created Baronet at the end of his official year. When President of the MCC in September 1930 he gave a banquet at Merchant Taylors' Hall to the Australian team captained by W. M. Woodfull.
Whilst still at University, Kynaston was involved in helping his brother Charles set up and become one of the famous Cambridge Seven missionaries to China.
Canon F. H. Gillingham, the old Dulwich College and Essex batsman, in his address at the Memorial Service in St. Paul's Cathedral, said that after coming down from Cambridge Kynaston realised that games were only a preparation for sterner duties, and in his presence it was easier for men to be good and harder to be bad. "Everything he touched he lifted up." |