Geoffrey Betham

Sir Geoffrey Lawrence Betham (8 April 1889 – 6 November 1962) was an English first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer.

Biography

Betham was born on 8 April 1889, the son of G K Betham of the Imperial Forest Service. He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Betham was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1909, served during World War I with the 15th Sikhs, and was mentioned in dispatches.

Betham joined the Indian Civil Service, and served as political agent in Zhob, Baluchistan; commissioner in Ajmer-Merwara province in the Rajputana region from 1933 to 1934; and then Resident of the province from 1935 to 1938. In 1938, he was appointed British envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nepal, a post he held until 1944.

Betham married Dorothy Cartwright in 1915, and they had one daughter.

Betham died on 6 November 1963 at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, aged 74 .