Herbert William Barritt OBE (12 February 1904 – 26 May 1967) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
Barritt was born in the North Yorkshire village of Cross Hills in February 1904.
[4] In addition to playing for Western India, he also made one first-class appearance for the Europeans cricket team against the Rest of India cricket team at Bombay in 1940,[3] a match in which he made his only first-class half century.
[5] Barritt was the principal of the Rajkumar College in Rajkot and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1945 New Year Honours.
With the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the subsequent breakdown in relations between Egypt and the United Kingdom, all the British faculty staff at the college were removed from their posts, including Barritt.