Walter Byles
English cricketer and barrister
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Walter Barnard Byles (8 August 1840 – 12 November 1921) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
Royston, Hertfordshire, England
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| Full name | Walter Barnard Byles | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 August 1840 Royston, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 November 1921 (aged 81) Uxbridge, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
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| 1862 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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The son of Sir John Barnard Byles and Emma Nash Wedd,[1] he was born in August 1840 at Royston, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Rugby School,[2] before going up to University College, Oxford.[3] 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.[4] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 31 runs in the Oxford first-innings by Henry Plowden.[5] 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.[1] Byles later served as a Sheriff of Middlesex in 1896.[6] He died at Uxbridge in November 1921.
