Dewing was born in August 1863 at
Beyton, Suffolk to the cricketer
Edward Dewing. He was educated in
Bury St Edmunds at
King Edward VI School, before attending
Brighton College. From there he attended the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He graduated from Sandhurst in August 1884, entering as a
lieutenant into the
West India Regiment. He served with the West India Regiment in
Jamaica,
Gold Coast,
Burma,
British India and
Singapore. He saw action in the
Boxer Rebellion, Dewing was commanding the
76th Punjabis when he was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant colonel on 26 October 1908. On visits to England between 1905 and 1912, Dewing played
minor counties cricket for
Suffolk, making eight appearances in the
Minor Counties Championship. While in British India, he made a single appearance in
first-class cricket for the
Europeans against the
Parsees at
Bombay in the 1907–08
Bombay Triangular. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Europeans first-innings
without scoring by
Maneksha Bulsara, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by the same bowler for 3 runs. He retired from the British Indian Army in October 1912. After returning to England, he served in the
British Army during the
First World War. He served with the
East Yorkshire Regiment, before being seconded to command a training reserve battalion in March 1917. He later served with the
Bedfordshire Regiment, where he commanded the 51st Graduate Battalion. He relinquished this command in February 1919. He was made an
OBE in the
1919 New Year Honours. Dewing died at
Ipswich in November 1934, at the age of 71. ==References==