| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | John Whetham Boddam-Whetham |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1843 |
| Birth Place: | Kirklington, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Death Place: | Folkestone, Kent, England |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Bowling: | Unknown |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 12 |
| Bat Avg1: | 6.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 7 |
| Deliveries1: | 8 |
| Wickets1: | 0 |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 28 September |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9830.html Cricinfo |
John Whetham Boddam-Whetham (25 May 1843 – 23 March 1918) was an English naturalist, traveler 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.[1] He was educated at Eton College, though he did not represent the college XI in cricket.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] 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.While travelling through Central America in 1875, Boddam-Wetham purchased two fragments from a carved wooden lintel in Flores, El Petén. Now in the British Museum, they are known to be from Lintel 3 of Temple I at Tikal.[6] He returned to London in 1876,[5] but left for a tour of Central and South America in later 1877 and arrived in British Guiana in January 1878, where he was to set out to climb Mount Roraima. 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.[5] He continued his travels around Central America, returning to London in 1879. Boddam-Whetham published several accounts of his travels.[5]
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.[1] He died at Folkestone in March 1918.[5]