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Corse Grange, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire born right-handed batsman John Nason was educated at Hastings and was only 17 and still at school when he made his first class debut in curious circumstances: he had not been named in Sussex’s starting XI against Warwickshire in 1906, but E.B. Dwyer was injured early in the first innings and the opposition magnanimously agreed to let Nason play as a full replacement rather than solely a substitute fielder. It didn’t help Sussex much: although Nason made 53 not out in the second innings to engineer a recovery from 59-8 to 178, that was only enough to set Warwickshire a target of one in the fourth innings which they duly achieved without laying bat on ball, when Harry Butt sent down a wide at his first attempt.
After finishing school he went up to Queens’ College, Cambridge and won Blues in 1909 and 1910. After playing his last of 22 matches for Sussex in 1910, he qualified for Gloucestershire and made his first appearances for his new County in 1913. An innings of 139 against Nottinghamshire that year remained his only century in first class cricket; no-one else scored more than 53 in the match, and it led his team to an easy victory.
During the First World War he was commissioned as a Captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in September 1916 with the rank of Flying Officer. His squadron flew reconnaissance missions in Nieuport 12 aircraft in the final stages of the Battle of the Somme. He was shot down and killed at Vlamertinge, near Ypres, Belgium on 26th December 1916, aged 27.
Nason played a total of 57 first class matches scoring 1,649 runs at an average of 17.92, and also with his slow right-arm occasional bowling took 10 wickets in first class play at 39.50 apiece with a best return of 2-24, as well as holding 35 catches in first class play.
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