William Bolitho (cricketer)

William Edward Thomas Bolitho DSO JP (2 July 1862 – 21 February 1919), of Polwithen House, Penzance was an English first-class cricketer, banker and British Army officer.

The only son of William Bolitho and his wife, Mary Hichens Yonge of Polwithen House, he was born at Madron near Penzance in July 1862.

[9] During the course of the war he was wounded in action, mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

[11] Bolitho later served as the director of Barclays and was a justice of the peace for Cornwall.

He married Ethel Grace Macleod of Invergordon Castle at Inverness Cathedral on 21 June 1888; the wedding was postponed from Easter due to the death of the brides father.