Walter Hadow

[1] Hadow was a noted schoolboy cricketer at Harrow, mentioned by Harry Altham as one of "a striking array of school batsmen".

[2] He went on to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he continued to be a noted player and Altham described him as one of "a steady stream of exceptional batsmen from the ranks of the Universities".

[3] An all-rounder, he was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm roundarm slow bowler who made 97 first-class appearances from 1869 to 1884.

Hadow scored 3,071 runs at an average of 19.56 with a highest innings of 217, one of two centuries in addition to ten half-centuries.

[5] Born at Regent's Park, London in 1849, Hadow died aged 48 at Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, his father-in-law's home, on 15 September 1898.