Louis Tarrant

Louis Bernard Napoleon Tarrant (29 December 1903 – ?) was an Australian cricketer who both played and umpired first-class matches in India during the 1930s. Unusually, he made his debut as a first-class umpire before making his debut as a first-class player.

Born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Tarrant was the son of Frank Tarrant, who played 329 first-class matches in Australia (for Victoria), England (for Middlesex), and India (for the Europeans and Patiala). Frank Tarrant's uncle, Ambrose Tarrant, also played at first-class level for Victoria. While resident in India during the early 1930s, Louis Tarrant, aged 29, umpired two first-class matches during an MCC team's 1933–34 tour of Ceylon and India. In the first, beginning on 9 November 1933, Southern Punjab, captained by the Maharaja of Patiala, hosted the Englishmen at Amritsar's Alexandra Ground. Louis Tarrant umpired alongside his father, Frank, who was standing in a first-class match for only the second time (although he went to umpire two of the England–India Test matches played on the tour). Other father-and-son pairs known to have umpired in the same first-class match include M. G. Vijayasarathi and his son M. V. Nagendra, who umpired a match between Mysore and Andhra during the 1960–61 season, and Tom Sewell senior and junior, who umpired an 1863 Gentlemen v Players fixture.