Walter Seabrook

Walter George Seabrook (12 February 1904 – 13 June 1988) was an English cricketer. Seabrook was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire and was educated at Haileybury, where he represented the college cricket team.[1]

Seabrook made his only first-class appearance for Gloucestershire against Kent in the 1928 County Championship.[2] In this match he was dismissed for a duck twice, while with the ball he bowled 2 wicket-less overs.[3] The following year he married Margaret Joan Spens, the couple would go on to have three children.[4] Seabrook later served in World War II, by December 1944 he held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment.[5] On 30 May 1945, Seabrook relinquished his commission and left the army.[6] He later died in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire on 13 June 1988.

His brother-in-law, Archibald Spens, played a single first-class match for the Europeans in the British Raj, while his brother, Frederick, played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and Cambridge University.