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{{short description|English cricketer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Walter Shuldham
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Walter Frank Quantock Shuldham
| height =
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|6|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Stoke-sub-Hamdon]], [[Somerset]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|2|7|1892|6|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Stoke-sub-Hamdon]], [[Somerset]], [[England]]
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role = Batsman
| family =
| club1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year1 = 1914–24
| type1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| debutdate1 = 27 July
| debutyear1 = 1914
| debutfor1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| debutagainst1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| lastdate1 = 27 November
| lastyear1 = 1926
| lastfor1 = Rajputana and Central India
| lastagainst1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC)
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 8
| runs1 = 126
| bat avg1 = 10.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 25
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 26 March
| year = 2011
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3814/3814.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Walter Frank Quantock Shuldham''' (17 June 1892 – 7 February 1971) played [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] in 1914 and 1924.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3814/3814.html| title = Walter Shuldham |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2011-03-21}}</ref> He later played in two first-class matches in India. He was born and died at [[Stoke-sub-Hamdon]], [[Somerset]].

==Cricket career==
Shuldham was the only son of the lord of the manor at Norton Manor, Norton-sub-Hamdon.<ref name="Lords">{{cite web | url = http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/edward-walford/the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla/page-327-the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla.shtml| title = The County Families of the United Kingdom | author = Edward Walford |publisher = www.ebooksread.com | accessdate = 2011-03-27}}</ref> He was educated at [[Marlborough College]], where he was an opening or middle order right-handed batsman. He played for Somerset in two matches in a week just before the start of the [[First World War]] in 1914 with no success, and then reappeared in four further matches in 1924. His highest score, however, was only 25, made in a 1924 match against [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11206.html | title = Scorecard: Worcestershire v Somerset | date = 1924-06-28 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2011-03-26}}</ref> He did not improve on this in two first-class matches for scratch Indian teams against the [[MCC cricket team in India in 1926-27|MCC side]] that toured India in 1926-27.

==Military career==
Shuldham was commissioned into the West Somerset Yeomanry as a Second Lieutenant on 29 August 1914 and was promoted a temporary Lieutenant on 10 December 1915. He was seconded (on probation) to the [[Indian Army]] as a Lieutenant on 15 March 1917 and was posted to the [[104th Wellesley's Rifles]]. He would have served with them in Mesopotamia. Between 22 July 1917 and 5 November 1917, and again from 30 November 1917 to 7 December 1918 he held the rank of acting Captain, often commanding a company.<ref>March 1922 Quarterly Army List</ref> He was admitted to the Indian Army on 3 April 1918. He was promoted Captain 19 May 1919 and served in South Persia in 1919-20.<ref>Marlborough College Register 1843-1933</ref> He was appointed to the Indian Political Department on 25 May 1920 <ref>Indian Army List April 1923</ref> and remained with them for the rest of his time in the Indian Army. He was promoted to Major on 19 May 1933<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33952 |date=1933-06-23 |page=4205 }}</ref> and retired from the army on 17 March 1935.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34144 |date=1935-03-22 |page=1985 }}</ref> In retirement, he was appointed [[High Sheriff of Somerset]] for 1954.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40115 |date=1954-03-02 |page=1315 }}</ref> He died at his home at East Stoke House in Stoke-sub-Hamdon where the Shuldham family still (as of 2011) runs an organic fruit-growing business.

==Personal life==
Shuldham married Doris Elizabeth Vaughan in 1920 and had four sons (one of whom was killed in the [[Second World War]]).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://dcodriscoll.pbworks.com/w/page/9956919/Shuldham | title = Descendants of Henry VIII | author = D. C. O'Driscoll |publisher = www.pbworks.com | accessdate = 2011-03-27}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Somerset cricketers]]
[[Category:High Sheriffs of Somerset]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:West Somerset Yeomanry officers]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Somerset]]

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