Walter Pattisson
Walter Badeley Pattisson (27 August 1854 – 6 November 1913) was an English amateur cricketer who played in 13 first-class cricket matches between 1876 and 1887, primarily for Kent County Cricket Club. Pattisson sometimes played under the name W Batt.
Pattisson was born at Witham in Essex in 1854, one of the 16 children of solicitor Jacob Howell Pattisson and his wife Charlotte.[1][2] He was educated at Tonbridge School from the age of nine and played cricket for the school team as a wicket-keeper for three years between 1869 and 1871, captaining the side in his final year at school.[1][3] He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in July 1876 in a match against Sussex County Cricket Club at Hove. He played occasionally for the county club when his work as a solicitor allowed, making a total of 12 appearances for the county First XI and one for the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side.[4][5][6]
As well as playing cricket, Pattisson played rugby union and athletics. He played for Gipsies Football Club, a rugby club formed by ex-Tonbridge men,[7][8] appeared in rugby international trial matches between 1874 and 1876 and represented England in the hammer throw against Ireland in 1877.[3][9] He played club cricket for Tonbridge Cricket Club and Bickley Park and was secretary of both clubs as well as being a member of the Committee at Kent after he retired from playing and of the Rugby Football Union from 1878 to 1880.[1][3]
Professional Pattisson became a senior partner in the legal firm Hores, Pattisson, and Bathurst and was a director of Legal & General Life Assurance.[3][10] He died at Beckenham in Kent in November 1913 aged 59.[11] He was the President of the Old Tonbridgians Society at the time of his death and a pavilion was built on the school playing fields in his memory.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Steed HE (1910) The register of Tonbridge School from 1826 to 1910, p.120. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-11-09.)
- ^ The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Solicitor, The Zimapanners. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ a b c d Mr Walter Badeley Pattisson, Obituaries in 1913, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1914. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Walter Pattisson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Marsham G (1907) A short history of Kent cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 432. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ The Boy's Own Annual, Volume 23, 1900, p.283. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-11-09.)
- ^ Gipsies F.C., The History of Rugby Union, Black & Blue. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
- ^ Athletic Sports, The Times, 1877-05-28, p.6.
- ^ The Times, 1912-06-07, p.19.
- ^ Walter Pattisson, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Pattisson, John Howell, Tonbridge at War. Retrieved 2018-11-09.