he took five Derbyshire wickets for 45 runs, and this was the only five-wicket innings performance of his career. Symington's departure from Leicestershire appears to have been abrupt. He captained the side in the match against Lancashire at Blackpool, but that was his last appearance for the team. The former Oxford University and Glamorgan all-rounder Gwynn Evans, now a schoolmaster in Leicestershire, took over as captain for the remaining six matches of the 1949 season. For 1950, Leicestershire recruited the former Worcestershire amateur Charles Palmer as both secretary and captain. Symington did not play first-class cricket again. After cricket Symington had been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1946. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1948 (backdated to November 1947). When he finished with first-class cricket, he resumed his army career as a lieutenant; in 1953, he was promoted to be a captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. One of his jobs in the army was to be an aide-de-camp to the governor of the Bahamas. He retired from the regular army in 1958 and joined the Territorial Army, being promoted to major on his retirement from the regular army. He resigned his commission in 1959. Symington joined the family firm of R. and W. H. Symington in Market Harborough as a director; the company made corsets and its mill is now the site of the Harborough Museum. In the 1970 general election, he stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for the Leicester North West seat, losing by more than 2,000 votes to the Labour candidate Greville Janner. References 1926 births 2009 deaths English cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Leicestershire cricket captains King's Royal Rifle Corps officers People educated at Canford School