Sir Thomas Edgar Halsey, 3rd Baronet, DSO (28 November 1898 – 30 August 1970) was an English

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er, naval officer (1916–1946), and Deputy Lieutenant of

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. A right-handed

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and right-arm

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bowler, he played

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between 1920 and 1928 and also represented the

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.Teams played for by Thomas Halsey
at CricketArchive

Early life

Born in

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in 1898, Halsey was the elder son of Sir Walter Halsey, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Agnes Marion, the daughter of William Macalpine Leny.
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' in Who Was Who 1897–2007 online, Retrieved 8 June 2008. He was educated at

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and

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. He was already a lieutenant in the

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when he went up to Cambridge.

Cricketer

Halsey was a right-handed

and right-arm

bowler. He played cricket for Eton in 1915 and 1916, but it was for the

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that he made his first-class debut, playing against his university side during the

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.First-class matches played by Thomas Halsey
at CricketArchive He played twice for the university cricket team in 1920, but did not gain his

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. The rest of his first-class matches were all for the Royal Navy, mostly against the

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, though there were also matches against the RAF and

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. He began to play

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cricket for

in 1921, continuing to play for them until 1932, a year in which he played for the Navy against a combined South America team. In 1936, he played for

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against HM Martineau's XI, captaining the side and scoring a

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in the first

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Naval officer

* HMS ''Hawkins'' (

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) (

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) 30 Apr 1925 – May 1926 * HMS ''Victory'' 31 Jan 1927 – Jul 1927 * HMS ''Effingham'' (

) (

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) 1 Feb 1929 – Feb 1931 * HMY ''Victoria and Albert'' (

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) 20 Jan 1932 – Jan 1934 *Commanding Officer, HMS ''Boadicea'' (

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) (

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) 3 Aug 1934 – Feb 1936 *Senior Officers' War Course ( HMS ''President'') 12 October 1936 – Feb 1937 *an Assistant to Naval Assistant to

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( HMS ''President'') 8 Mar 1937 – Apr 1939 *Commanding Officer, the

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& CO Training establishment HMS ''St George'', Douglas, Isle of Man 4 Feb 1942–(08.1942) *

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, the

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, 15 Feb 1943 – 10 Apr 1945. *

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RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS ''Daedalus'') 1945–1946 He was appointed a Companion of the

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(DSO) on 7 June 1940 "for good services in the withdrawal of the Allied Armies from the beaches at

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County officer

Halsey retired from the Navy with the rank of captain in 1946,

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1971
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from 1948, a JP from 1950,

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from 1953, and Vice-Lieutenant for

from 1957 until his death at

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in 1970.

Marriage and children

Halsey married Jean Margaret Palmer, daughter of

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, and through him, granddaughter of the second

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, Charles Brooke. They had one son and two daughters.

References

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