Walter Hanbury Twigg (6 May 1883 – 5 February 1963) was an English
field hockey
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player and
cricket
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er.
Born at
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,
Staffordshire, Twigg was educated at
Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school whi ...
, where he played for both the school
cricket
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and
football teams, before leaving Repton in July 1902 and attending
King's College, London
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.
In field hockey, Twigg played his club hockey for
Stafford Hockey Club, and also appeared for
England
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eight times in 1909 and 1910.
As a cricketer, Twigg played
minor counties cricket for
Staffordshire, making his debut in the 1902
Minor Counties Championship against
Bedfordshire
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at
Stoke-on-Trent.
He played minor counties cricket intermittently in the first decade of the 1900s, but played more frequently from 1911–1914.
After the First World War he played in one final match against
Berkshire in 1921, bringing his total appearances for Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship to 26.
He was by profession an electrical engineer.
His membership of Stafford Hockey Club lasted over sixty years and he was its president for more than ten.
He died at
Stafford on 5 February 1963. His brother
Charles was a
first-class cricket
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er.
References
External links
Walter Twiggat CricketArchive
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1883 births
1963 deaths
Sportspeople from Stafford
People educated at Repton School
Alumni of King's College London
English cricketers
Staffordshire cricketers
English male field hockey players