Charles Edward Dolling

Charlie Dolling was born on 4 September 1886 in the South Australian rural community of Wokurna on the Yorke Peninsula, to a family of German origin. He went to school at Way College in Unley and Prince Alfred College, where he captained the First XI in 1904–05 and 1905–06. In December 1904, in the annual match against St Peter's College, he scored 311 and took six wickets in an innings victory. In the corresponding match a year later he made 106 and 27 not out and took 13 wickets in a nine-wicket victory.

While studying for a medical degree at the University of Adelaide he was a regular player for South Australia. He made his first century against New South Wales in 1907–08, when his 113 in the second innings allowed South Australia to leave New South Wales to score 593 for victory, and they were eventually all out for 572. Later that season he made 140 against the touring Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC).  He was selected to play for The Rest against an Australian XI at the end of the season, and again at the end of the 1910–11 season.

Once he graduated and began his medical career he had less time for cricket. In 1912 he took up a practice in Minlaton on the Yorke Peninsula. He did not play any first-class cricket in the 1912–13 or 1913–14 seasons, but was nevertheless selected to tour New Zealand with the Australian team at the end of the 1913–14 Australian season. 

Dolling was studying and working in England when World War I began in 1914. He enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915 and served in Egypt, at the 15th RAMC Hospital in Alexandria and in France. He returned to Australia in 1921.

He captained South Australia in his last three first-class matches in 1922–23, two of them against the visiting MCC team. 

On 13 February 1923, at St Paul's Anglican Church, Adelaide, he married Dorothy Clarke, a New Zealander with a degree in advanced mathematics, who shared his love of cricket. They had a daughter and a son.

Dolling became a cricket selector for South Australia, and in 1928 he was appointed to the Australian Test selection panel. He continued to serve in both positions until his death, and also managed South Australian teams. He did post-graduate study at a London hospital in 1934, at a time that coincided with the Australian Test team's tour of England. He also studied in Germany; he spoke German fluently.

Charles Dolling suffered a seizure in his surgery on 11 June 1936 and died within an hour.

Dorothy Dolling (1897–1967) was a prominent member of the Country Women's Association and was awarded the OBE for her welfare work during World War II.