Thomas Baggallay

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Thomas Weeding Baggallay later Thomas Weeding Weeding (11 June 1847 – 19 December 1929) was a solicitor and an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey as a wicketkeeper between 1865 and 1874. He was born in St Pancras, London and died in Addlestone, Surrey.[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9441.html Thomas Baggallay at ESPNcricinfo]

Baggallay changed his surname to Weeding in 1868 by royal licence.{{London Gazette |issue=23400 |date=14 July 1868 |page=3938 }} He qualified as a solicitor in 1870 and was Clerk to the Surrey County Council for more than thirty years. In 1927 he was appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of Surrey.

Baggalay married Alice Maude Elizabeth and had three sons, two of whom were killed during the First World War.{{cite news|newspaper=Thanet Advertiser|date=3 January 1930|page=2|title=Fatal Fall of Ramsgate Lady's Brother}} Baggalay, died aged 82, following a fall from a chair on 19 December 1929 at Kingthorpe, Addlestone.