Sir Jack Seddon Rumbold (5 March 1920 – 9 December 2001) was a New Zealand first-class cricketer, Royal Navy officer, barrister and colonial administrator. A great-nephew of Richard Seddon, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rumbold was the youngest New Zealander to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. He served in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and after completing his officer training, the Royal Navy, in the service of which he was mentioned in dispatches. He later had a legal career with the British Colonial Service in East Africa, advising the governments of Kenya and Zanzibar, surviving the 1962 revolution in the latter. After a brief academic career, which saw him become the first academic director of the British campus of Stanford University, he resumed his legal career with the Industrial Tribunals, for which he was knighted in 1984. Early life and military service Rumbold was born on the South Island at Reefton in March 1920. His father was a headmaster, while his mother was a piano teacher. Her uncle was the former Prime Minister of New Zealand Richard Seddon. Rumbold was educated at St Andrew's College, Christchurch where his interests included rugby, cricket and poetry. He was head choirboy at Christchurch Cathedral. From St Andrew's he read law at the University of Canterbury, graduating in 1940. He became the youngest New Zealander to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, but this was deferred due to a combination of his young age and the Second World War. Rumbold enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve and in 1941 he was accepted for officer training in England at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Upon graduating he joined the destroyer , serving as a sub-lieutenant in the Arctic convoys. In 1943, he served aboard Inglefield during the Sicily campaign. He survived the ships sinking in February 1944 during Operation Shingle and was the last man to abandon ship, helping other crew men to evacuate, for which he was mentioned in dispatches. Following the sinking, he was appointed flag lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Gerald Dickens, serving with him in North Africa, Brussels and The Hague. Oxford University and early career Following the war he was demobilised and took up his Rhodes Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, captained by the New