Batting style Right-hand batsman Name Francis Bateman-Champain 1895-1914 Gloucestershire | Role Batsman Bowling style Right-arm slow | |
Full name Francis Henry Bateman-Champain Born 17 June 1877 ( 1877-06-17 ) Richmond Hill, Surrey, England Died 29 December 1942(1942-12-29) (aged 65)
Tiverton, Devon, England |
Francis Henry Bateman-Champain (17 June 1877 – 29 December 1942) was an English cricketer playing primarily for Gloucestershire and Oxford University cricket teams between 1895 and 1914. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm slow bowler, he came from a cricketing family: his brothers John, Claude and Hugh all played first class cricket. His uncles Fendall, Frederick, Robert and William Currie also played. Francis played 114 matches in his career, scoring 4,677 runs at a batting average of 24.61. over 3,300 of these were scored for Gloucestershire, for whom he made four of his five centuries. Born in Richmond Hill, Surrey, he died in Tiverton, Devon.
Bateman-Champaign was educated at Cheltenham College and Hertford College, Oxford. He became a schoolteacher and taught at Wellington College and at Cheltenham College.