{{short description|English cricketer, medical doctor and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Bernard Broughton Waddy | birth_date = 3 July 1911 | birth_place = Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|8|7|1911|7|3}} | death_place = Winchester, Hampshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = Stacy Waddy (father)<br>Mick Waddy (uncle)<br>Gar Waddy (uncle) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = | club1 = Oxford University | year1 = 1932 | club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year2 = 1934 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 4 | runs1 = 49 | bat avg1 = 8.16 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 26 | deliveries1 = 438 | wickets1 = 7 | bowl avg1 = 29.42 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 2/11 | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 13 July | year = 2020 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/22638.html Cricinfo }}

'''Bernard Broughton Waddy''' (3 July 1911 – 7 August 1981) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer, physician and academic.

The son of the cricketer and clergyman Stacy Waddy, he was born at Parramatta in July 1911. He moved to England with his family as a child and was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford.<ref name="NEW">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Contributors |magazine=New Scientist |issue=220 |page=292 |date=1961-02-01 |access-date=2020-07-13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jzXythBBc64C}}</ref> While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1932, making two appearances against Leicestershire and Yorkshire.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33530/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Phil Gerrans |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-13 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 11 runs and took 3 wickets for Oxford.<ref name="FCB">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33530/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Bernard Waddy |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-13 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="FCBO">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33530/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Bernard Waddy |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-13 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Two years later, he toured Ireland with the Marylebone Cricket Club, making two first-class appearances against the Ireland cricket team in Dublin at College Park and Observatory Lane.<ref name="FCM"/> He scored 38 runs on the tour and took 4 wickets.<ref name="FCB"/><ref name="FCBO"/>

After graduating from Oxford, Waddy became a medical doctor, having trained at King's College Hospital. He was a specialist in epidemiology in the Gold Coast,<ref name="NEW"/> and during the Second World War he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with the African Colonial Force in April 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35294|date=30 September 1941|page=5714|supp=y}}</ref> He later served with the Royal Army Medical Corps attachment to the Colonial Force and was promoted to lieutenant in September 1943, antedated to April 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36177|date=17 September 1943|page=4171|supp=y}}</ref> Following the war, he moved into lecturing on the subject of tropical diseases and was said to have been interested in "any disease communicable on a large scale". He was a senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and also served in the capacity of overseas medical officer for Save the Children.<ref name="NEW"/><ref>{{cite book |title=African Medical History |first=Alistair |last=Tough |date=1997 |publisher=Bodleian Library |pages=34 |isbn=9781851240517 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpAWAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was also a contributor to the ''New Scientist'' magazine.<ref name="NEW"/>

Waddy died at Winchester in August 1981. His uncles, Mich and Gar Waddy, both played first-class cricket.

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