Valentine Simpson

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Valentine Simpson

| image =

| country = England

| birth_date = {{birth date|1849|8|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Newington, Surrey, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1915|11|2|1849|8|15|df=y}}

| death_place = Fareham, Hampshire, England

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1885

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 10

| bat avg1 = 5.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 7

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 29 July

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/valentine-simpson-20199 Cricinfo

}}

Valentine Simpson (15 August 1849 – 2 November 1915) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of John Henry Simpson,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000069/18770512/021/0005|title=Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries|work=Hampshire Telegraph|location=Portsmouth|page=5|date=12 May 1877|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} he was born at Newington in August 1859. A club cricketer for Reigate Priory Cricket Club, he later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Kent at Southampton in 1885.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6851/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Valentine Simpson|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in Hampshire's first innings by Alec Hearne, while in their second innings he was dismissed by Jimmy Wootton.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2988.html|title=Hampshire v Kent, County Match 1885|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription}} Outside of cricket, Simpson was a pastoral farmer. He farmed a herd of roughly sixty Jersey and Guernsey cattle, which he sold in February 1883, alongside Albany Farm near Fareham.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000231/18830203/044/0001|title=Albany Farm, Fareham, Hants|work=Hampshire Chronicle|location=Winchester|page=5|date=3 February 1883|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} He was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, having been elected in 1873.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_EVDAQAAMAAJ|title=Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England|journal=Royal Agricultural Society of England|volume=26–50|location=London|page=110|date=1890|access-date=29 July 2023}} He was also associated as a club cricketer with Fareham Cricket Club, where he was described as "Fareham's Jessop" and was described by the Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer as being a "forcing bat, with an eye like a hawk, and hardly ever known to miss a catch".{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004801/19130516/189/0012|title=Fareham cricket and some of its players|work=Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer|location=Portsmouth|page=12|date=16 May 1913|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004801/19130509/193/0011|title=Single|work=Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer|location=Portsmouth|page=11|date=9 May 1913|access-date=29 July 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} Simpson died at Fareham in November 1915.