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Thomas Baggallay

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Later life: Baggallay/Weeding on a Surrey County Council sign, Mitcham Lane, London

Thomas Weeding Baggallay later Thomas Weeding Weeding (11 June 1847 – 19 December 1929) was a solicitor and an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey as a wicketkeeper between 1865 and 1874. He was born in St Pancras, London and died in Addlestone, Surrey.[1]

Baggallay changed his surname to Weeding in 1868 by royal licence.[2] He qualified as a solicitor in 1870 and was Clerk to the Surrey County Council for more than thirty years.[3] In 1927 he was appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of Surrey.[3]

Baggalay married Alice Maude Elizabeth and had three sons, two of whom were killed during the First World War.[3] Baggalay, died aged 82, following a fall from a chair on 19 December 1929 at Kingthorpe, Addlestone.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Thomas Baggallay at ESPNcricinfo
  2. ^ "No. 23400". The London Gazette. 14 July 1868. p. 3938.
  3. ^ a b c d "Fatal Fall of Ramsgate Lady's Brother". Thanet Advertiser. 3 January 1930. p. 2.