Brigadier General Hugh Frederick Bateman-Champain, CMG (6 April 1869 - 7 October 1933) was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. Bateman-Champain was a right-handed batsman. He gained the rank of Brigadier-General in the service of the Indian Army.

Bateman-Champain played 11 first-class

First-class cricket

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 matches for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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, with his debut for the county coming in 1888 against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 and his final first-class match for the county coming against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 in 1902. He also represented the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 in a single first-class match in 1902 against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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.

Bateman-Champain died at Ascot

Ascot, Berkshire

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, Berkshire

Berkshire

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 on October 7, 1933.

Family

Educated Cheltenham College

Cheltenham College

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.

Eldest son of Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain, KCMG, RE and Harriet Sophie Currie.

Bateman-Champain was part of a large cricketing family. His brothers Claude, Francis and John

John Bateman-Champain

John Norman Bateman-Champain was an first-class English cricketer, making five appearances for Gloucestershire, who later in life became the third Anglican Bishop suffragan of Knaresborough. Bateman-Champain was a right-handed batsman.-Early life and education:John Bateman-Champain was born at...

 all played first-class cricket, as did his brother-in-law Frederick Currie. His uncles Fendall Currie, Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, Robert Currie and William Currie also played first-class cricket.

He married in Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester Cathedral

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 3 February 1904 Dorothy Gertrude Arbuthnot and had two daughters.

External links

• Hugh Bateman-Champain at Cricinfo
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• Hugh Bateman-Champain at CricketArchive
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• Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Hugh Bateman-Champain