William Henry Tracey Campbell Penney Vallange (15 August 1864 – 7 February 1924) was an English

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 striki ...

er and medical doctor who played one first-class match in New Zealand for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

. Born at

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...

in London in 1864,McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 133. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) Vallange spent a few years in Dunedin during the 1880s. He played club cricket for Carisbrook and rugby union for Pirates FC whilst in the city, serving on the Carisbrook committee. Vallange played in an Otago team of 22 against the touring Australian side in November 1886, top-scoring for Otago with 18 runs in the team's first innings―the only batsman to reach double figures.Henry Vallange
CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2024. Later in the season he played in Otago's only first-class match of the season. Playing against Canterbury, he scored 21 runs in the first innings and nine in the second. In 1886 Vallange also played at

fullback Fullback or Full back may refer to: Sports * A position in various kinds of football, including: ** Full-back (association football), in association football (soccer), a defender playing in a wide position ** Fullback (gridiron football), in Americ ...

for the Otago Rugby Football Union representative side against Canterbury. Two years later he played for Otago against the touring British side led by Andrew Stoddart. Vallange later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying as a doctor in 1894. He practised in London and died at

Southwark Southwark ( ) is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark. The district, which is the oldest part of South London, developed ...

in the city in February 1924. He was aged 59.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vallange, Henry 1864 births 1924 deaths Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School 20th-century English medical doctors Otago rugby union players New Zealand rugby union players