Riley Watson
Personal information
Full name
Joseph Riley Watson
Born28 March 1859
Steeton, Yorkshire, England
Died18 October 1915(1915-10-18) (aged 56)
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
BattingUnknown
BowlingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1882Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 2
Batting average 0.66
100s/50s –/–
Top score 1
Balls bowled 32
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 25 January 2023

Joseph Riley Watson (28 March 1859 – 18 October 1915) was an English medical doctor and public health official who was also in his youth a cricketer who played first-class cricket in two matches in the 1880s.[1] He was born at Steeton-in-Craven, Yorkshire and died at Harrogate, also in Yorkshire.

Watson was educated at Pannal College, Harrogate and then at a succession of medical training establishments and universities: The Yorkshire College of Science (later Leeds University); University College, London; Christ's College, Cambridge; and then the University of Edinburgh.[2] He graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1884 and followed that with a medical degree from Edinburgh in 1887.[2] He was a Doctor of Public Health from 1894 and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He practised in Harrogate where he later became the medical officer of health for the borough of Harrogate.[2]

As a cricketer, Watson played in one first-class match for Cambridge University against the Australians in 1882, in which he batted at No 11 and bowled just eight overs without success; in 1888 he played a further single game for "An England XI", an end-of-season match against that year's Australians at Harrogate, and did not bowl at all.[1] He scored a single run in each of his two games.

References

  1. 1 2 "Riley Watson". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Joseph Riley Watson". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 373. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
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