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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = <br />
| image = <br />
| country = England<br />
| fullname = Wynyard Battye<br />
| birth_date = 9 January 1838<br />
| birth_place = [[Berhampur]], [[Madras Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1882|2|10|1838|1|9|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Weybridge]], [[Surrey]], England<br />
| nickname = <br />
| family =<br />
| batting = Unknown<br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]<br />
| year1 = 1859<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 2<br />
| bat avg1 = 2.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 2<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–<br />
| date = 23 September<br />
| year = 2021<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10399.html Cricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''Wynyard Battye''' (9 January 1838 – 10 February 1882) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Indian Army]] officer.<br />
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The son of George Wynyard Battye-Cumming and Marion Martha Money, he was born in January 1838 at [[Berhampur]] in [[British India]]. Through his mothers side, it is a possibility that he was the illegitimate grandson of [[Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom]], making [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] his great-grandfather.<ref>Battye, Evelyn Desirée (1984), "The Fighting Ten", London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, {{ISBN|0-907799-09-4}}.</ref> Battye served in the [[British Indian Army]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], holding a commission with the [[10th Jats|65th Bengal Native Infantry]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Visitation of England and Wales |first1=Joseph Jackson |last1=Howard |first2=Frederick Arthur |last2=Crisp |date=1897 |volume=5 |url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationenglan05howa/visitationenglan05howa_djvu.txt |language=en}}</ref> He came to England following the suppression of the mutiny, where he played a [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] at [[Mote Park (cricket ground)|Maidstone]] in June 1859.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36325/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Wynyard Battye|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-09-25|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 2 runs in the MCC first innings by [[George Wigzell]], while in their second innings he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[Edgar Willsher]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1146.html|title=Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1859|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-09-25|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Returning to British India, he was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in November 1864,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22828|date=4 March 1864|page=1352}}</ref> before being promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in April 1866.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23161|date=11 September 1866|page=4981}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in April 1874 and served in the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] from 1878 to 1880.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24106|date=19 June 1874|page=3098}}</ref><ref name="BOOK"/> Battye died in England at [[Weybridge]] in February 1882.<ref>Deaths. ''[[Evening Standard|London Evening Standard]]''. 31 March 1882. pp. 1–8</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:1838 births]]<br />
[[Category:1882 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Ganjam district]]<br />
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]<br />
[[Category:British people in colonial India]]<br />
[[Category:British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857]]<br />
[[Category:English cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War]]</div>Bot