Wally Mendelson

Wallingford Mendelson (29 December 1872 – 19 August 1902) was a New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and athlete of the 1890s, who became a lawyer.

Life and career Wally Mendelson was one of several children of Julius Mendelson, who was the first postmaster in Temuka, in the South Canterbury region, in 1869. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and the University of Otago, where he graduated with a BA in 1892. A batsman, he played one first-class match for Canterbury in 1893-94. He won the New Zealand long jump championship in 1893. He was admitted to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1897.

He moved to the Colony of Natal in May 1902, intending to live in South Africa permanently, but he contracted myelitis and died in hospital in Durban a few weeks after arriving.