About Walter Tate
Lived 1863 – 1946 (aged 83). Walter Tate was a British cricketer.
Walter William Giffard Tate (27 August 1863 – 29 December 1946) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1882. He was born in Axminster, Devon; legal notices in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 April 1947 indicate a "William Walter Giffard Tate" died at Randwick, Sydney, Australia on 29 December 1946 and the authoritative cricket website CricketArchive has identified this as the same person.
Tate played as a middle-order batsman in a single match for Somerset in the county's first season as a first-class team. He scored 0 in the first innings and 19 in the second of the match against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Tate moved to Australia where he was an executive in a sugar refining group based in Adelaide.
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English cricketer (1863-1946)
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Walter Tate was born on 27 August 1863.
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Walter Tate died on 29 December 1946.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Walter Tate. https://biography.guide/walter-tate/
MLA: "Walter Tate." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/walter-tate/.
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