Wynyard Battye
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| Full name | Wynyard Battye | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 January 1838 Berhampur, Madras Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 February 1882 (aged 44) Weybridge, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1859 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 23 September 2021 | |||||||||||||||
Wynyard Battye (9 January 1838 – 10 February 1882) was an English first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer.
The son of George Wynyard Battye-Cumming and Marion Martha Money, he was born in January 1838 at Berhampur in British India. Through his mothers side, it is a possibility that he was the illegitimate grandson of Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, making George III his great-grandfather.[1] Battye served in the British Indian Army during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, holding a commission with the 65th Bengal Native Infantry.[2] He came to England following the suppression of the mutiny, where he played a first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Kent at Maidstone in June 1859.[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 2 runs in the MCC first innings by George Wigzell, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by Edgar Willsher.[4] Returning to British India, he was promoted to lieutenant in November 1864,[5] before being promoted to captain in April 1866.[6] He was promoted to major in April 1874 and served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880.[7][2] Battye died in England at Weybridge in February 1882.[8]
References
- ^ Battye, Evelyn Desirée (1984), "The Fighting Ten", London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, ISBN 0-907799-09-4.
- ^ a b Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1897). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 5.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Wynyard Battye". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1859". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "No. 22828". The London Gazette. 4 March 1864. p. 1352.
- ^ "No. 23161". The London Gazette. 11 September 1866. p. 4981.
- ^ "No. 24106". The London Gazette. 19 June 1874. p. 3098.
- ^ Deaths. London Evening Standard. 31 March 1882. pp. 1–8