David Dundas Whigham (22 August 1832 – 27 October 1906) was a
Scottish first-class
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er and legal
advocate.
The son of Robert Whigham of Lochpatrick, advocate and Sheriff of
Perthshire, and his wife Jane Dundas, daughter of
Sir Robert Dundas, 1st Baronet, he was born at
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of t ...
in August 1832. He was educated at
Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of ...
,
before going up to
Balliol College, Oxford. Whigham did not play
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...
for
Oxford University Cricket Club
Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC), which represents the University of Oxford, has always held first-class status since 1827 when it made its debut in the inaugural University Match between OUCC and Cambridge University Cricket Club (CUCC). ...
while studying at Balliol, but did play three first-class matches for the
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...
from 1856 to 1857, scoring 29 runs with a highest score of 9. Following his graduation from Oxford, Whigham was admitted to the
Faculty of Advocates
The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constit ...
to practice as an
advocate in 1858.
Whigham was married to Ellen Murray (née Campbell), daughter of advocate James Campbell of
Craigie House and Grace Elizabeth Hay. Through this marriage, he was the brother-in-law of
Richard Campbell MP. The couple had six sons and four daughters, including the
British Army
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General
Sir Robert Whigham, the female
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
player
Sybil Whigham, and the golfer and journalist
H. J. Whigham. Through their son George Hay Whigham, they were also the grandparents of the famous
Margaret Whigham, Duchess of Argyll. Whigham died at his residence at
Prestwick
Prestwick ( gd, Preastabhaig) is a town in South Ayrshire on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland about southwest of Glasgow. It adjoins the larger town of Ayr to the south on the Firth of Clyde coast, the centre of which is about south, an ...
in October 1906.
[Obituary. ''Kilmarnock Herald and North Ayrshire Gazette''. 2 November 1906. p. 5]
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1832 births
1906 deaths
Cricketers from Edinburgh
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
Scottish cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Scottish lawyers
Members of the Faculty of Advocates
David
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