Bernard Waddy
Australian-born English first-class cricketer, physician and academic
About Bernard Waddy
Lived 1911 – 1981 (aged 70). Bernard Waddy was a military personnel, cricketer, academic and physician.
Bernard Broughton Waddy (3 July 1911 – 7 August 1981) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer, physician and academic.
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. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1932, making two appearances against Leicestershire and Yorkshire. He scored 11 runs and took 3 wickets for Oxford. 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. 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. 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. He was also a contributor to the New Scientist magazine.
Waddy died at Winchester in August 1981. His uncles, Mich and Gar Waddy, both played first-class cricket.
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Australian-born English first-class cricketer, physician and academic (1911-1981)
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Bernard Waddy was born on 3 July 1911 in Parramatta.
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Bernard Waddy died on 7 August 1981 in Winchester.
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Bernard Waddy was a military personnel, cricketer, academic and physician.
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