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Full name | Hugh Frederick Bateman-Champain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Ashford, Middlesex, England |
6 April 1869||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 October 1933 Ascot, Berkshire, England |
(aged 64)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Claude Bateman-Champain (brother), Francis Bateman-Champain (brother), John Bateman-Champain (brother), Fendall Currie (uncle), Sir Frederick Larkins Currie (uncle), Robert Currie (uncle), William Currie (uncle). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1902 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1888–1902 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 24 June 2010 |
Brigadier-General Hugh Frederick Bateman-Champain, CMG (6 April 1869 – 7 October 1933) was an Indian Army officer and also an England cricketer. Bateman-Champain was a right-handed batsman.
Bateman-Champain played 11 first-class matches for Gloucestershire, with his debut for the county coming in 1888 against Yorkshire and his final first-class match for the county coming against Surrey in 1902. He also represented the Marylebone Cricket Club in a single first-class match in 1902 against Kent.
Bateman-Champain died at Ascot, Berkshire on 7 October 1933.
Educated Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Eldest son of Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain, KCMG, RE and Harriet Sophie Currie.
Bateman-Champain was part of a large cricketing family. His brothers Claude, Francis and John all played first-class cricket, as did his uncles Fendall Currie, Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, Robert Currie and William Currie.
He married in Gloucester Cathedral on 3 February 1904 Dorothy Gertrude Arbuthnot and had two daughters.