Thomas Watson (cricketer, born 1913)
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| Full name | Thomas Mead Watson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 May 1913 Lewisham, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 August 1994 (aged 81) Bath, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1933–1935 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 7 June 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Thomas Mead Watson (22 May 1913 – 7 August 1994) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
Watson was born at Lewisham in May 1913. He was educated at Monkton Combe School,[1] before going up to Balliol College, Oxford.[2] While studying at Oxford, he made three appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University, playing against a combined Minor Counties cricket team in 1933, Gloucestershire in 1934 and Yorkshire in 1935.[3] He scored 92 runs in his three matches, with a high score of 27.[4]
After graduating from Oxford, he returned to Monkton Combe where he taught French. He served in the Somerset Light Infantry during the Second World War, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1941.[5] He was later commissioned by the Marylebone Cricket Club to write Le Jeu de Cricket, a guide to cricket in French.[1] Watson died at Bath in August 1994.
References
- ^ a b "Wisden - Obituaries in 1994". ESPNcrcinfo. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Player profile: Thomas Watson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Thomas Watson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Thomas Watson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "No. 35103". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 March 1941. p. 1496.