Bill Gwynne

{{short description|New Zealand cricket umpire}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Bill Gwynne

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| country = New Zealand

| fullname = William Joseph Chatten Gwynne

| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|6|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|11|10|1913|6|28|df=yes}}

| death_place = Invercargill, New Zealand

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| umpire = true

| testsumpired = 3

| umptestdebutyr = 1956

| umptestlastyr = 1966

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| date = 7 July

| year = 2013

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37217.html Cricinfo

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William Joseph Chatten Gwynne (28 June 1913 – 10 November 1991) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in three Test matches between 1956 and 1966.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37217.html |title= Bill Gwynne |accessdate=7 July 2013 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} In all, he umpired 24 first-class matches between 1956 and 1966, all but four of them at the Carisbrook ground in Dunedin.{{cite web |title=Bill Gwynne as Umpire in First-Class Matches |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41431/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=30 January 2022}}

Gwynne married Joan Isaac in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham in October 1937.{{cite journal |title=Weddings |journal=Evening Star |date=9 October 1937 |page=26 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19371009.2.156.5}} He served overseas with the New Zealand Army in World War II.{{cite web |title=William Joseph Chatten Gwynne |url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/104346 |website=Auckland Museum |access-date=30 January 2022}} Joan died in Invercargill in November 1989, and Bill also died there, in November 1991, aged 78.{{cite web |title=New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007, Southland |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60547/images/43391_344228-01196 |website=Ancestry.com.au |access-date=30 January 2022}}