William Stephens Donne was an English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union

Rugby Football Union

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Cricket career

Donne was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics

1900 Summer Olympics

The 1900 Summer Olympics, today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1900 in Paris, France. No opening or closing ceremonies were held; competitions began on May 14 and ended on October 28. The Games were held as part of...

, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France

French cricket team

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, he was run out for six runs in Great Britain's first innings and did not bat in the second. He was captain of Castle Cary Cricket Club, who are to mark their 175th anniversary in 2012, with a celebration of the Castle Cary players that played in 1900, whilst the London Games take place.

Outside cricket

Donne served as a captain in the Somerset Light Infantry

The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)

The Somerset Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles.-Formation:...

 during the First World War. He represented Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 on the committee of the Rugby Football Union

Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union was founded in 1871 as the governing body for the sport of rugby union, and performed as the international governing body prior to the formation of the International Rugby Board in 1886...

from 1902, and was the organisations president from 1924 to 1925.