Francis Bateman-Champain


Francis Henry Bateman-Champain 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.