Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington (24 February 1900[1] – 24 June 1969) was an Australian first-class cricketer and medical specialist.

Reg Bettington was brought up on the family sheep station near Merriwa and attended The King's School, Parramatta from the age of 11, where he excelled at Latin and Greek and played for several years in the First XI cricket team.

[16] After leaving Oxford with a medical degree, Bettington spent time working in Glasgow as an intern, before moving to London to practise at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

[17] He played only occasional cricket matches for four seasons, turning out for amateur teams such as Free Foresters, Gentlemen, and H.D.G.

[24] As soon as he returned to Australia, Bettington was selected to play in an Australian XI, consisting mostly of Test aspirants, including Archie Jackson and Don Bradman, against the touring English team.

[27] Lowry's other sister Gertrude (known as "Beet") had married another of Tom's friends, the English Test captain Percy Chapman, in 1925.

[30] In 1938, the Bettingtons moved to London, where Reg took up a position in Harley Street and was accepted into the Royal College of Surgeons.

Major Bettington served as a medic in the Army from April 1940 to December 1945,[31] including four years in battle zones in the Middle East and Papua.

In 1951, Marion, visiting her mother in New Zealand, saw a vacancy for an ear, nose and throat specialist at Napier Hospital, and Reg applied and was successful.

[35] Reg Bettington died when his car left the road while he was driving to a clinic in Gisborne on a foggy day in 1969.

[36] Reg's elder brother John (1898–1931)[37] played first-class cricket for Oxford University and New South Wales.