Percy Walter Vasey (29 July 1883 – 11 September 1952) played first-class cricket in one match for Somerset in the 1913 season.[1] In the 1900s, he had played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire. He was born at Highbury, London and died at Upton Hellions, Crediton, Devon.
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| Full name | Percy Walter Vasey | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1883 Highbury, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 September 1952 (aged 69) Upton Hellions, Crediton, Devon, England] | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm slow | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | George Vasey (brother) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1913 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||
| Only FC | 19 May 1913 Somerset v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 19 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||
Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Vasey became a schoolmaster at King's School, Bruton. Unusually to modern eyes, he was a successful member of the school hockey and cricket teams and a reproduction in 2008 of the 1908 edition of The Dolphin, the King's Bruton school magazine, shows a fair-haired mustachioed man as a member of both the unbeaten football team and as a gown-wearing teacher in the school photograph.[2] Vasey returned to King's Bruton as a master after the First World War and was a housemaster.[2]
As a cricketer, Vasey was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm slow bowler, though he did not bowl in either Minor Counties or first-class cricket. He played twice for Hertfordshire in 1906, making 31 in the innings victory over Oxfordshire.[3] In minor cricket in 1911, he scored 282 for the Old Brutonians team against Sidmouth, sharing a second wicket partnership of 396 with Harold Hippisley, who made 150.[4] His one first-class match came in 1913, and he made 10 and 3 in the match against Yorkshire at Bath, in which Hippisley also played.[5] As late as 1931 he was playing for Old Brutonians in club matches.
Vasey served in the First World War with the Dorset Regiment; he was transferred from active service to the Ministry of National Service in 1917 with the rank of captain.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Percy Vasey". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ a b "The Dolphin (King's Bruton magazine)" (PDF) (2008 ed.). King's Bruton. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxfordshire v Hertfordshire". CricketArchive. 17 August 1906. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "Deaths in 1914". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1915 ed.). Wisden. p. 226.
- ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Yorkshire". CricketArchive. 19 May 1913. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ "No. 30582". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 March 1918. p. 3403.