A younger brother was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, KCMG, a Conservative MP who was Governor of South Australia.
An all-round sportsman, he also represented Cambridge in rackets, and popularised squash — a sport he played into his seventies.
[4] A defensive batsman with a strong cut shot,[4] he often batted down the order after leaving Cambridge and often added useful runs, including his highest first-class score of 138 not out which helped Kent to victory over the Gentlemen of Philadelphia in 1897.
Swanton, "He always had a few pet bees buzzing around in his bonnet, and used to inveigh against the criminal folly of selectors and authority generally if their view did not match his own."
When Maurice Leyland was preferred to Frank Woolley in the touring party to Australia in 1928–29, he fulminated against the selection of a "cross-batted village-greener".