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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Walter John Seton
| birth_date = 29 December 1864
| birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1912|10|30|1864|12|29}}
| death_place = [[Fleet, Hampshire|Fleet]], [[Hampshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family = [[John Seton Karr]] (uncle)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year1 = 1894
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 1
| bat avg1 = 1.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 1
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 18 April
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20664.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Walter John Seton''' (29 December 1864 – 30 October 1912) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er, barrister and soldier.

The son of Walter Seton Karr, he was born at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in [[Company rule in India|British India]] in December 1864. He was educated at [[Eton College]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The Eton School Register 1871–1880 |date=1907 |publisher=Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/etonregister00collgoog/page/n174 135] |url=https://archive.org/details/etonregister00collgoog |language=en}}</ref> before going up to [[New College, Oxford]].<ref>{{alox2|title=Seton, Walter John}}</ref> After graduating from Oxford in 1886, he was commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in the [[London Scottish (regiment)|London Scottish Regiment]] in December 1887.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25765|date=9 December 1887|page=6871}}</ref> A student of the [[Inner Temple]], he was [[Call to the bar#England and Wales|called to the bar]] in 1889.<ref name="BOOK"/> He later made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] against [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] at [[Leyton Cricket Ground|Leyton]] in 1894,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32667/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Walter Seton |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-04-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> despite having graduated eight years previously.<ref name="BOOK"/> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Oxford first innings by [[Walter Mead (cricketer)|Walter Mead]], before ending their second innings [[not out|unbeaten]] without scoring.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4164.html |title=Essex v Oxford University, 1894 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-04-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Seton was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in February 1890,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26023|date=14 February 1890|page=838}}</ref> before being promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in January 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26250|date=26 January 1892|page=427}}</ref> He resigned his commission in May 1895,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26620|date=30 April 1895|page=2490}}</ref> but later returned to serve in South Africa in the [[Second Boer War]],<ref name="BOOK"/> before resigning his commission for a second and final time in September 1906, at which point he retained the rank of captain.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27956|date=9 October 1906|page=6792}}</ref> He contributed articles on cricket in public schools to the ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]'s'' of 1905 and 1906. He was the proprietor of Bramshot Golf Club in Hampshire, giving up his lease in early 1912.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Times |date=28 February 1912 |page=14 |title=Golf – The Bramshot Cup}}</ref> Seton died later that same year in October at [[Fleet, Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/232809.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1912 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=2020-04-18 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> His uncle, [[John Seton Karr]], also played first-class cricket.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=20664}}

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[[Category:1864 births]]
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[[Category:People from Kolkata]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
[[Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
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[[Category:Members of the Inner Temple]]
[[Category:London Scottish officers]]
[[Category:Volunteer Force officers]]
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[[Category:19th-century English lawyers]]
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]
[[Category:English barristers]]

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