John Boddam-Whetham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British army officer
Date of Birth: 25-May-1843
Place of Birth: Kirklington, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 23-Mar-1918
Profession: military officer
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About John Boddam-Whetham
- John Whetham Boddam-Whetham (25 May 1843 – 23 March 1918) was an English naturalist, traveller and first-class cricketer. The son of Colonel Alexander Boddam-Whetham and his wife, Maria, Boddam-Whetham was born at Kirklington Hall in May 1843.
- He was educated at Eton College, though he did not represent the college XI in cricket.
- He did however make a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South at Beeston in 1870.
- Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for seven runs in the Gentlemen of the North first-innings by W.
- G.
- Grace, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by his brother, Fred Grace, for five runs.During the 1870s he became a well known naturalist and traveller.
- He toured the western United States in the early 1870s, which included an ascent of Mount Shasta.
- From there he departed for Australia, and from Sydney he took a boat to Honolulu, arriving in July 1874.
- During his tour of the Hawaiian Islands, he attempted unsuccessfully to recover a specimen of Moho nobilis for the British Museum, a now extinct bird which was endemic to the islands.
- After travelling to Fiji and Samoa, he returned to Hawaii and was this time successful in recovering a pair of the birds.
- He returned to London in 1876.
- He left for a tour of Central and South America in 1877, setting out to climb Mount Roraima in British Guiana, arriving in Georgetown in January 1878.
- He joined a colonial government led exhibition to reach the summit of the mountain, but after a long trek through the rainforest they were unsuccessful.
- He continued his travels around Central America, returning to London in 1879.
- He published several accounts of his travels.
- Following his travels in the 1870s, little is known of his later life, besides his marriage to Harriet Manning in November 1882 at North Shore, Sydney.
- He died at Folkstone in March 1918.
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