Richard Walmesley

Richard Walmesley
Personal information
Full name
Richard Walmesley
Born30 July 1816
Bath, Somerset, England
Died26 May 1893(1893-05-26) (aged 76)
Chippenham, Gloucestershire,
England
BattingUnknown
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1836Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 3
Batting average 3.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 2*
Catches/stumpings –/1
Source: Cricinfo, 25 January 2023

Richard Walmesley (30 July 1816 – 26 May 1893) was an English lawyer and a cricketer who appeared in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1836.

Life

The son of John Walmesley (d. 1860) of Ince, Preston and his second wife Ellen Long (daughter of Wiltshire landowner Richard Godolphin Long), Walmesley was born at Bath. He was educated at Winchester College and from 1835 at St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1839, which converted automatically to a Master of Arts in 1842.

Walmesley became a lawyer, being called to the bar in 1842 and specialising in equity draughtsmanship and conveyancing. Around 1870, he acquired the Lucknam Park estate and became a justice of the peace for Wiltshire.

Cricket

Walmesley was in the cricket eleven at Winchester as a middle-order batsman, but in the 1836 Cambridge trial match, he batted at No 11, though he still managed to be the team's top-scorer in the second innings, with 13 not out. His sole first-class match, the game against the Cambridge Town Club, followed less than two weeks later, and he scored 1 and 2 not out, batting at No 8; he played no further matches.

Family and death

In 1849 Walmesley married Ann Eliza Donaldson, daughter of the late William Donaldson of Lyttleton House, Blandford. The couple had one son, John.

Richard Walmesley died at Lucknam Park on 26 May 1893. His tomb-chest inside Colerne parish church has his effigy in marble, wearing a nightshirt and holding a bible, and is described by Pevsner as "very realistic". He is further commemorated by a tall stone column in the centre of the village's market place.

References

  1. 1 2 "Richard Walmesley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Company. p. 1502.
  3. ↑ "Richard Walmesley Profile - Cricket Player England, Stats, Records, Video". ESPNcricinfo.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Walmesley, Richard (WLMY835R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ↑ "History: The Walmesleys". Lucknam Park Hotel and Spa. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Cambridge University Second XI". CricketArchive. 12 May 1836. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  7. ↑ The Annual Register. J. G. & F. Rivington. 1850. p. 209.
  8. ↑ Massue, Melville Henry (1994). Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Isabel of Essex Volume : containing the descendants of Isabel (Plantagenet) Countess of Essex and Eu. Vol. III. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-8063-1436-5.
  9. ↑ "Fashionable Wedding". Hampshire Advertiser. 13 October 1849. p. 5.
  10. ↑ Walford, Edward (1895). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 1st-4th, 6th, 12th-18th, 20th-58th, 60th ed. p. 1058.
  11. ↑ Orbach, Julian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2021). Wiltshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-300-25120-3. OCLC 1201298091.
  12. ↑ Historic England. "Walmesley Memorial and Surrounding Railings (1199388)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 May 2022.