Walter Vizard

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| country = England

| fullname = Walter Oswald Vizard

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|11|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bellary, Madras Presidency,
British Raj

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|1|10|1861|11|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bayswater, London, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role = Wicket-keeper

| family =

| club1 = Hertfordshire

| year1 = 1897

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| club2 = Gloucestershire

| year2 = 1882–1890

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 18

| runs1 = 256

| bat avg1 = 8.53

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 49*

| deliveries1 = –

| wickets1 = –

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 11/1

| date = 4 September

| year = 2011

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22227.html Cricinfo

}}

Walter Oswald Vizard (16 November 1861 – 10 January 1929) was an English cricketer. Vizard was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Bellary, Madras Presidency in the British Raj (today India). He was educated at Clifton College."Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p56: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948

Vizard made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Middlesex in 1882. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Surrey in 1890.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}} In his eighteen first-class matches, he scored 256 runs at an average of 8.53, with a high score of 49 not out. Behind the stumps he made 11 catches and made a single stumping.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}}

By 1891, Vizard had moved to Hertfordshire and was enlisted in the 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd lieutenant.{{London Gazette |issue=26176 |date=1891-06-26 |page=3381 }} He held the rank of lieutenant in 1895, in September of that year he was promoted to captain.{{London Gazette |issue=26665 |date=1895-09-24 |page=5303 }} By 1896, he was in partnership as a solicitor with a Charles Lothian Nicholson, son of General Lothian Nicholson, based in London, however in that year the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent.{{London Gazette |issue=26782 |date=1896-04-07 |page=2176 }} He was also in partnership as a solicitor with a Lionel Monk Smith, but this partnership too was dissolved by mutual consent in 1897.{{London Gazette |issue=26888 |date=1897-09-03 |page=4953 }} In 1897, he made a single appearance for Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33523/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Walter Vizard|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=4 September 2011}} By 1902, he was in partnership with a Henry Theodore Monro, but the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in that year.{{London Gazette |issue=27403 |date=1902-02-04 |page=741 }}

He died in Bayswater, London on 10 January 1929.