Bernard Waddy
Bernard Broughton Waddy (3 July 1911 – 7 August 1981) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer, physician and academic.
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Full name | Bernard Broughton Waddy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 3 July 1911 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 August 1981 72) Winchester, Hampshire, England | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Stacy Waddy (father) Mick Waddy (uncle) Gar Waddy (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1932 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1934 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 July 2020 |
The son of the cricketer and clergyman Stacy Waddy, he was born at Parramatta in July 1911. He moved to England with his family as a child and was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford.[1] While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1932, making two appearances against Leicestershire and Yorkshire.[2] He scored 11 runs and took 3 wickets for Oxford.[3][4] Two years later, he toured Ireland with the Marylebone Cricket Club, making two first-class appearances against the Ireland cricket team in Dublin at College Park and Observatory Lane.[2] He scored 38 runs on the tour and took 4 wickets.[3][4]
After graduating from Oxford, Waddy became a medical doctor, having trained at King's College Hospital. He was a specialist in epidemiology in the Gold Coast,[1] and during the Second World War he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with the African Colonial Force in April 1940.[5] He later served with the Royal Army Medical Corps attachment to the Colonial Force and was promoted to lieutenant in September 1943, antedated to April 1940.[6] Following the war, he moved into lecturing on the subject of tropical diseases and was said to have been interested in "any disease communicable on a large scale". He was a senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and also served in the capacity of overseas medical officer for Save the Children.[1][7] He was also a contributor to the New Scientist magazine.[1]
Waddy died at Winchester in August 1981. His uncles, Mich and Gar Waddy, both played first-class cricket.
References
- "Contributors". New Scientist. No. 220. 1 February 1961. p. 292. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "First-Class Matches played by Phil Gerrans". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Bernard Waddy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Bernard Waddy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "No. 35294". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 September 1941. p. 5714.
- "No. 36177". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 September 1943. p. 4171.
- Tough, Alistair (1997). African Medical History. Bodleian Library. p. 34. ISBN 9781851240517.