Francis Slaven
Zimbabwean cricketer and conveyancer (1931-2007)
Francis Ferguson Slaven (3 March 1931 – September 2007) was a Zimbabwean first-class cricketer and conveyancer.
Slaven was born at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia in March 1931. He later studied in England at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Gloucestershire and Lancashire at Oxford in 1955.
After graduating from Oxford, he returned to Southern Rhodesia where he became a conveyancer. Slaven died at Bulawayo in September 2007. His brother, Michael, also played first-class cricket.
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