Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
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Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
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17 November 1876 Jhansi, India |
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| Died | 14 June 1922 (aged 45) Gorhambury, Hertfordshire, UK |
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British |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1900-1913 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1902–1904 | London County | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1904–1913 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive
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| Known for | Hunter, explorer, writer, cricketer, soldier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
British
Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard DSO MC FRGS FZS (17 November 1876 – 14 June 1922) was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War. Concerned not only with improving the quality of marksmanship, the measures he introduced to counter the threat of German snipers were credited by a contemporary with saving the lives of over 3,500 Allied soldiers.
During his lifetime, he also explored territory never seen before by white man, played cricket at first-class level, including on overseas tours, wrote short stories and novels (one of which was turned into a Douglas Fairbanks film) and was a successful newspaper correspondent and travel writer. His many activities brought him into the highest social and professional circles. Like other turn of the century hunters such as Teddy Roosevelt, he was an active campaigner for animal welfare and succeeded in seeing legal measures introduced for their protection.
Hesketh-Prichard was born an only child on 17 November 1876 in Jhansi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. His father Hesketh Brodrick Prichard, an officer in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, died from typhoid six weeks before he was born, leading him to be raised alone by his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard. She herself had come from a military family, her father being Major-General Browne William Ryall.
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