Background
He was born in Bellary, Madras Presidency in the British Raj (today India).
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Walter Vizard
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He was educated at Clifton College.
Career
Vizard was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. Vizard made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Middlesex in 1882. He made seventeen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Surrey in 1890.
In his eighteen first-class matches, he scored 256 runs at an average of 8.53, with a high score of 49 not out.
Behind the stumps he made 11 catches and made a single stumping. By 1891, Vizard had moved to Hertfordshire and was enlisted in the 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant.
He held the rank of Lieutenant in 1895, in September of that year he was promoted to Captain. In 1897, he made a single appearance for Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk.
He died in Bayswater, London on 10 January 1929.
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