William Meaburn
Tatham
Male
England
1862-07-30
Ryeborough, Norfolk, England
1938-10-18
Cantley, Norfolk, England
An obituary of Reverend William Tatham [newspaper source unclear]
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The Reverend William Meaburn Tatham, Vicar of Cantley for 46 years, died at his home, Cantley Vicarage, near Doncaster, early on Tuesday. He was 76, and had been ill for some time. The Reverend and Mrs Tatham, formerly Miss Louisa Valetta Buller, celebrated their golden wedding in January, 1936. They were married on 10 January 1886 at Saint Matthias’ Church, Earl’s Court, S.W.
Mrs Tatham is the youngest daughter of the late Mr Frederick Pole Buller, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, and comes of a family of which the late General Buller was a member. Mr Tatham was son of the late Reverend George E. Tatham, Vicar of Saint Paul’s, East Moulsey, and was born at Ryburgh, Norfolk.
Mr Tatham was instituted by the Archbishop of York on December 14, 1892. He was educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he gained his M.A. At the time of his marriage, and after ordination, he was at Saint Saviour’s Church, Folkestone, and for two years before his presentation to the living of Cantley, he held a curacy at Saint Agnes’, Kennington Park, S.E.
During his tenure of the Cantley living the old parish church has undergone considerable restoration, an aisle having been added, and a great deal of money has been raised and spent on beautifying the interior. Among other additions to the church has been a handsome screen between the chancel and the nave, and in recent years up-to-date heating and lighting equipment has been installed, and a considerable extension of the churchyard has been made.
As a curate, Mr Tatham spent a great deal of his time working in slum areas. All his life, Mr Tatham took a keen interest in athletics, especially rugby football and cricket. When an undergraduate at Oxford he captained the ‘Varsity rugby team, in the season 1884-5, a year in which there was not a single defeat in over 20 matches. For three years in succession he played for England in international rugby matches as a forward. Mr Tatham had shone as a soccer player, too. After he was ordained and went to Saint Saviour’s at Folkestone he played for the Folkestone football team in the F.A. Cup competition. They were “knocked out” in the second round.
He served in the South African war as a chaplain, following the fortunes of Lord Methuen’s troops during the warfare towards the end of the campaign. For a year’s service he had the South African, medal and bars, denoting the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony.
For some time Mr Tatham was a member of the Doncaster Board of Guardians, and also served on the Cantley Parish Council. He took a keen interest in sport in the parish, and for many years captained the cricket club. His prolific scoring was the talk of many old members of the cricket club, whose ground used to be at the Old Vicarage. Mr Tatham leaves a widow, seven children, and nine grandchildren.
Mr Tatham was a popular figure in the parish, unostenatious in all he undertook and with a ready sense of humour. Throughout last Lent he attended at the church regularly at 7.20 each morning and it was only recently that he felt the burden of age and illness to be too great and engaged a curate to assist in the work of the growing parish.
He was elected vice-president of the Doncaster Rugby Club when it was reformed in 1909 after a ten years’ lapse. A keen and interested spectator, he was a frequent visitor to the Yorkshire County matches. One of his sons, Mr William M. Tatham, was a playing member of the club for many seasons, and is now in Africa. Mr Tatham was a member of the Oxford team which beat Yorkshire many years ago and broke a long series of successes by the county side.
1881 - 1888
1
18
10
1881 - Holt Lawn Tennis Club (Amateur)
Round 1
Herbert Baddeley 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
6-2
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Charles Edmund Tatham 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Francis William Monement 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
?
Round 1
James Ernest (Ernest) Renshaw 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
6-0
6-1
6-1
Round 1
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
Arthur Paston Mack
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Edward Morgan Hansell 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
6-4
2-6
6-2
Round 1
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
J.S.G. Pemberton
6-2
6-1
6-2
Round 2
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
John Percy Simpson
6-3
6-0
6-4
Quarterfinals
Rev. Arthur Stanhope Rashleigh 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
6-4
6-1
6-0
Round 1
R.H. Perkin 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
2-6
6-5
6-4
Round 1
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
A. Burrows
6-1
6-1
Round 2
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
J.S. Sargeaunt
2
sets
to
0
Round 3
Rev. Arthur Stanhope Rashleigh 1 *
William Meaburn Tatham
5-7
6-3
6-1
Round 1
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
Edward Berners Upcher
2
sets
to
0
Round 2
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
Walter Edward Hansell
2
sets
to
0
Quarterfinals
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
bye
Semifinals
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
Francis William Monement
2
sets
to
1
Final
William Meaburn Tatham 1 *
William Bolding Monement
2
sets
to
1