Zealander Martin Donnelly, with Rumbold making eight appearances in 1946–47. He scored 175 runs in his eight matches as an opening batsman, at an average of 12.50 and a high score of 25. He gained a cricket blue and played rugby for Oxford University RFC, though the pressures of his studies limited his rugby appearances and so he did not gain a second blue. After graduating, Rumbold was called to the bar as a member of the Inner Temple. Having contemplated joining the Sudan Political Service, he decided against, with family ties bringing him back to New Zealand where he practiced at Wanganui as a barrister and solicitor, before becoming a crown prosecutor. After almost a decade in New Zealand, he applied for the Colonial Service in 1957, gaining a position as a Queen's Counsel in Kenya. There he gained the admiration of conservationist and chief game warden Lyn Temple-Boreham, with the two undertaking a number of expeditions to the Maasai Mara. He was a legal draftsman in the office of the Attorney General of Kenya from 1961, taking part in the Lancaster House Conferences which paved the way for Kenyan independence. Zanzibar Revolution and later life Following Kenyan independence, Rumbold was appointed Queen's Counsel and Attorney General of Zanzibar. At that stage Zanzibar was a British protectorate on the verge of full independence, he was tasked with preparing a constitution for the soon to be independent state. However, his work was in vain as the Zanzibar Revolution took place in January 1964, overthrowing the Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, with Rumbold and his family fleeing aboard a yacht to Tanganyika. The new ruler of Zanzibar, Abeid Karume, invited Rumbold to resume his post, but he declined and instead settled in Nairobi where he advised the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs in its preparations to transition Kenya into a republic. While in Kenya, he ran the government law school, which later became the law faculty of the University of East Africa. He returned to England in 1966, where he became the first academic director of the British campus of Stanford University. His legal career progressed to his involvement in industrial tribunals, where he was their part-time chairman in 1968, before becoming their full-time chairman in 1972. Among the cases he presided over included that of Pakistani cricketer Younis Ahmed, who had claimed unfair dismissal when he was not offered a