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Archdale Palmer Wickham (9 November 1855 – 13 October 1935) was an English
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,
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er and
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.


Clerical career

Wickham was the son of the Rev. Edmund Dawe Wickham of Holmwood, and was educated at
Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English private boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. It was founded as Marlborough School in 1843 by the Dean of Manchester, George ...
. He matriculated in 1874 at
New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...
, where he read
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, and graduated B.A. in 1879. He then prepared for the
priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...
hood at Leeds Clergy School and was
ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...
. After three curacies he was
vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...
of
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, Somerset, from 1888 to 1911 and a
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of
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from 1904 to 1911. He was then vicar of
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, Somerset, from 1911 until his death in 1935.


Cricket career

Wickham played 82 first-class matches for
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between 1891 and 1907. He also played for a number of representative teams and for
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, and played second-class cricket for
Norfolk County Cricket Club Norfolk County Cricket Club is one of twenty National County Cricket Clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Norfolk. The club is a member of the National Counties Championship ...
from 1881 to 1890. A
wicket-keeper In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the ...
and right-handed batsman, he scored 760 career first-class runs, and claimed 90 catches and 60
stumpings Stumped is a method of dismissing a batter in cricket, in which the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket of the striker while the striker is out of their ground. It is governed by Law 39 of the Laws of Cricket. Being "out of their ground" m ...
. He had a distinctive wicket-keeping stance, bending low with his feet more than a metre apart. Playing for Somerset against
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in the
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in 1899, Wickham kept throughout Hampshire's innings of 672 for 7 without conceding a bye. This remained a record in the Championship until 2002. In 1901, playing for Somerset against Oxford University, he kept wicket for both sides: when the Oxford wicketkeeper was injured during the match, Wickham volunteered to stand in briefly for him. It is the only known instance in first-class cricket of a player keeping wickets for both sides in the same match. Wickham was not noted for his batting, and usually batted at number 11. However, when he made his highest first-class score of 28, he top-scored in Somerset's second innings as they struggled in vain to avoid an innings defeat against
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in 1900.


Personal life

Wickham was a renowned amateur
entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
, specializing in the
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. In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the
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. His collection of butterflies numbered many thousands. After his death his collection of specimens and manuscripts was lodged at the
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. Wickham married firstly, in 1883, Emily Helena McPherson Baldwin (1856–1890), daughter of the Rev. John Richard Baldwin, a chaplain in India. They had a daughter and two sons. He and his second wife, Harriet Elizabeth Strong, who came from a family of vicars and brewers, had a son and two daughters.


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