Walter Byles

Walter Byles

Personal information
Full name	Walter Barnard Byles
Born	8 August 1840 Royston, Hertfordshire, England
Died	12 November 1921(1921-11-12) (aged 81) Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1862	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 31 Batting average 31.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 31 Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 8 January 2020

Walter Barnard Byles (8 August 1840 – 12 November 1921) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of Sir John Barnard Byles and Emma Nash Wedd,[1] he was born in August 1840 at Royston, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Rugby School,[2] before going up to University College, Oxford.[3] While studying at Oxford, Byles made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1862.[4] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 31 runs in the Oxford first-innings by Henry Plowden.[5] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in January 1866. He served as a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit.[1] Byles later served as a Sheriff of Middlesex in 1896.[6] He died at Uxbridge in November 1921.

References

1. Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar. Reeves and Turner. p. 71.
2. Mitchell, A. T. (1902). Rugby School Register 1842–1874. Vol. 2. A. J. Lawrence. p. 150.
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Byles, Walter Barnard" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
4. "First-Class Matches played by Walter Byles". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
5. "Gentlemen of England v Oxford University, 1862". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
6. "No. 26720". The London Gazette. 10 March 1896. p. 1596.

External links

• Walter Byles at ESPNcricinfo