Hervey Robert Charles Tudway (23 September 1888 – 18 November 1914) was a member of a long-established family from Wells, Somerset who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1910.[1] He was born at Westminster, London and died while serving as a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards at Boulogne, France.
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| Full name | Hervey Robert Charles Tudway | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 September 1888 Westminster, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 November 1914 (aged 26) Boulogne, France | ||||||||||||||
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| 1910 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||
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Family and background
editThe Tudway family were prominent in Wells from the middle of the 18th century with wealth derived from sugar plantations in the West Indies, and a series of three family members served as the Member of Parliament for Wells from 1754 to 1830, with a further family member being MP for three years from 1852 to 1855.[2] Hervey's father was Charles Tudway, who owned industrial and other property in and around Wells and who lived at Milton Lodge, Wells, where he created a spectacular garden on a hillside that is now regularly open to the public.[3]
Hervey Tudway's mother, and the source of his first name, was Alice, who was the daughter of Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet and the granddaughter of Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Baronet, both of her ancestors being prominent cricket players.
Cricket career
editTudway's career in first-class cricket was brief: he played in one match for Somerset against Hampshire in 1910, batting at No 8 and making six runs in each of the two innings.[4] He did not bowl, and it is not known whether he batted right- or left-handed. The venue of Tudway's only first-class match, the Officers Club Services Ground, Aldershot may have reflected the fact that he was a serving army officer: his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1915 records that he "played frequently for the Household Brigade".[5]
Army career
editTudway was commissioned as a probationary second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 5 February 1908.[6] Two years later, in February 1910, he was confirmed as a full second lieutenant.[7] Later that same year, on 29 September 1910, he was promoted to lieutenant.[8]
Tudway died of his wounds at Boulogne in the first months of the First World War.[5] The 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards was engaged in the First Battle of Ypres at this stage of the war. He is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Hervey Tudway". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Milton Lodge, Wells". gardens-guide.com. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
- ^ "Scorecard: Hampshire v Somerset". CricketArchive. 9 June 1910. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Deaths in 1914". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1915 ed.). Wisden. p. 245.
- ^ "No. 28106". The London Gazette. 4 February 1908. p. 808.
- ^ "No. 28336". The London Gazette. 4 February 1910. p. 866.
- ^ "No. 28454". The London Gazette. 6 January 1911. p. 129.