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Arthur Whatman

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Arthur Dunbar Whatman (13 February 1873 – 28 May 1965) was an English cricketer of the early twentieth century who played as a wicketkeeper for Suffolk County Cricket Club, a non-first-class team that is one of the minor counties of English cricket. His first-class experience came from representative team tours to New Zealand and the West Indies, in which he played twenty-six games, score 394 runs at a batting average of 14.07, taking 21 catches and executing nine stumpings.[1] He had a prominent involvement in a dispute involving Bernard Bosanquet and a disagreement over an umpiring decision during a match against Canterbury during Lord Hawke's 1902-03 tour of New Zealand.[1][2]

He was born in Westcott, Surrey in 1873 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Brighton (1883-87), Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[3] He served for a year as a civilian aide-de-camp to General Clements in the Second Boer War from December 1899. Afterwards he was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London and saw additional service in World War I as a captain in both the Suffolk Regiment and The Buffs.[4]

He died in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1965.[5]

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Notes
  1. ^ a b "Player Profile: Arthur Whatman". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  2. ^ Williamson, Martin and Lynn McConnell (11 December 2004). "Bosie, Bannerman and a boycott". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  3. ^ "WHATMAN, ARTHUR DUNBAR (WHTN892AD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ Malden, Henry C. (1902). Muster Roll. Windlesham House, Brighton. A.D. 1837 to 1902 (2nd ed.). Brighton: H. & C. Treacher.
  5. ^ "Player Profile: Arthur Whatman". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
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