George Beldam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Beldam

English cricketer and photographer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1868

Place of Birth: New Cross, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1937

Profession: photographer, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About George Beldam

  • George William Beldam (1 May 1868 – 23 November 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and a pioneer of action photography in sport.George Beldam was the eldest child of a family that was descended from seventeenth-century Huguenot refugees.
  • He studied engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before joining the family engineering company.
  • He captained Peterhouse at cricket, football and tennis, and later played for Brentford F.C.He was a steady right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler who represented Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and London County in first-class cricket between 1900 and 1907.
  • He scored 6,575 runs (average 30.02) with a personal best of 155* against Surrey at Lord's in 1902 and took 83 catches and 107 wickets (average 30.63) with a personal best of 5/28 versus Lancashire at Liverpool in 1902. He became a noted artist and photographer.
  • He was the first action photographer of sport in Britain, specialising in cricket and golf.
  • He collaborated with C.B.
  • Fry on two instructional books, Beldam providing the illustrations and some of the text: Great Batsmen: Their Methods at a Glance (1905) Great Bowlers and Fielders: Their Methods at a Glance (1907)His brother, Cyril Beldam, and a cousin, Ernest Beldam, also played first-class cricket. A biography of him was written by a descendant: George Alastair Beldam, Third Man in: Lost World of a Camera Artist – G.W.Beldam and the Art of Edwardian Cricket, The George Beldam Collection, 1995, ISBN 978-0-9516676-0-6Beldam married three times.
  • He left his first wife, Gertrude, and married the much younger Margaret in 1921, then in turn left Margaret and married the even younger Christina in 1930.
  • All three marriages produced children.
  • He and Christina lived on 24 acres near Farnham in Surrey.
  • He died of a heart attack in 1937.

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