About Walter Byles
Lived 1840 – 1921 (aged 81). Walter Byles was a cricketer and barrister.
Walter Barnard Byles (8 August 1840 – 12 November 1921) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of Sir John Barnard Byles and Emma Nash Wedd, he was born in August 1840 at Royston, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to University College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, Byles made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1862. Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 31 runs in the Oxford first-innings by Henry Plowden. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in January 1866. He served as a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit. He died at Uxbridge in November 1921.
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English barrister and cricketer
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Walter Byles was born on 8 August 1840 in Royston.
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Walter Byles died on 12 November 1921 in Uxbridge.
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Walter Byles was a cricketer and barrister.
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