Richard Walmesley (30 July 1816 – 26 May 1893) was an English lawyer and a

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who appeared in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1836. He was born in

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, Somerset and died at

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, near Colerne, Wiltshire. The son of John Walmesley (d. 1860) of Ince, Preston and his second wife Ellen Long (daughter of Wiltshire landowner

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), Walmesley was educated at Winchester College and from 1835 at

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. He was in the cricket eleven at Winchester as a middle-order batsman, but in the 1836 Cambridge trial match, he batted at No 11, though he still managed to be the team's top-scorer in the second innings, with 13 not out. His sole first-class match, the game against the Cambridge Town Club, followed less than two weeks later, and he scored 1 and 2 not out, batting at No 8; he played no further matches. Walmesley graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1839, which converted automatically to a Master of Arts in 1842. He became a lawyer, being

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in 1842 and specialising in equity draughtsmanship and conveyancing. Around 1870, he acquired the Lucknam Park estate and became a

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for Wiltshire. He died at Lucknam on 26 May 1893. His tomb-chest inside Colerne parish church has his effigy in marble, wearing a nightshirt and holding a bible, and is described by Pevsner as "very realistic". He is further commemorated by a tall stone column in the centre of the village's market place.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walmesley, Richard 1816 births 1893 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge English justices of the peace People from Bath, Somerset Cricketers from Somerset