Arthur Whatman
Arthur Dunbar Whatman was an English cricketer of the early twentieth century who played as a wicketkeeper for Suffolk County Cricket Club, a non-first-class team that is one of the minor counties of English cricket. His first-class experience came from representative team tours to New Zealand and the West Indies, in which he played twenty-six games, score 394 runs at a batting average of 14.07, taking 21 catches and executing nine stumpings. He had a prominent involvement in a dispute involving Bernard Bosanquet and a disagreement over an umpiring decision during a match against Canterbury during Lord Hawke's 1902-03 tour of New Zealand.
He was born in Westcott, Surrey in 1873 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Brighton, Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He served for a year as a civilian aide-de-camp to General Clements in the Second Boer War from December 1899. Afterwards he was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London and saw additional service in World War I as a captain in both the Suffolk Regiment and The Buffs.
He died in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1965.
