William Aldwin Soames (10 July 1850 – 27 December 1916) was an English cricketer. Soames was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Brighton, Sussex, and was educated at Brighton College, which his father, William Aldwin Soames, had founded in 1845, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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| Full name | William Aldwin Soames | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 July 1850 Brighton, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 December 1916 (aged 66) City of London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Henry Soames (brother), Arthur Soames (politician) (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1875 | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 29 September 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soames made his first-class debut for Sussex against Hampshire at the Green Jackets Ground, Winchester, in 1875. He made two further first-class appearances for the county in 1875, against Hampshire at the County Ground, Hove, and Gloucestershire at the College Ground, Cheltenham.[1] In his three first-class matches for the county, he scored 17 runs at an average of 3.40, with a high score of 17.[2] His 17 runs all came in the first-innings of his first match against Hampshire, thereafter he failed to score in four consecutive innings. According to Scores and Biographies, "[he] is a good average bat and fields well at long-leg or cover-point."[3]
He died at Bank station in the City of London on 27 December 1916. His brother, Henry, played first-class cricket for Hampshire.
Career and family edit
William Aldwin Soames was a solicitor with the firm of Soames & Thompson, of London. He acquired the estate at Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey. His father had been a prosperous Russian merchant and partner in Wilkie & Soames, soap makers.[4] He married (Caroline) Louisa Jackson,[5] the daughter of a Manchester merchant, by whom he had nine children, including Jack Soames, of Bergeret, Nanyuki, Kenya (today the Soames Hotel), a notorious member of the Happy Valley set who was called as a witness in the Lord Erroll murder trial.
References edit
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by William Soames". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by William Soames". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ^ "Wisden - Other deaths in 1916". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ ‘Soames of Hamsell Manor, formerly of Sheffield Park’, Burke’s LG., 1952 ed
- ^ Nicholas Mander, Borromean Rings: genealogy of the Mander Family, Owlpen Press, 2011
External links edit
- William Soames at ESPNcricinfo
- William Soames at CricketArchive