Biography
Simpson was born in Suffolk on 27 March 1909 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He then went on to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant on 29 August 1929. He made his first-class cricket debut in August 1931, playing for the Army against the MCC at Lord's as a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He was promoted lieutenant on 29 August 1932. He was placed on half-pay due to ill-health on 13 April 1936, and returned to full duty, but with reduced seniority, on 15 July 1936.
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