Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington was an Australian first-class cricketer and medical specialist.
16 Facts About Reg Bettington
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Reg Bettington was brought up on the family sheep station near Merriwa and attended The King's School, Parramatta from the age of 11, where he excelled at Latin and Greek and played for several years in the First XI cricket team.
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Reg Bettington went up to New College, Oxford University in 1919, and played cricket regularly for Oxford University for the next four seasons.
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Reg Bettington was selected for the Gentlemen in both their matches.
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Reg Bettington took 62 wickets at an average of 17.64 in the 1920 season.
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Reg Bettington is Oxford University's leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket, one wicket ahead of Foster Cunliffe.
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Reg Bettington was captain of North Sydney, where he encouraged Bill O'Reilly.
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Reg Bettington began practising as an ear, nose and throat specialist in Macquarie Street, Sydney.
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Reg Bettington had kept up his golf, and won both the Australian Amateur and NSW Amateur titles in 1932.
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In 1938, the Bettingtons moved to London, where Reg took up a position in Harley Street and was accepted into the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Reg Bettington played his last two first-class matches in 1938, for Free Foresters and MCC.
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Major Reg Bettington served as a medic in the Army from April 1940 to December 1945, including four years in battle zones in the Middle East and Papua.
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In 1951, Marion, visiting her mother in New Zealand, saw a vacancy for an ear, nose and throat specialist at Napier Hospital, and Reg Bettington applied and was successful.
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Reg Bettington spent the rest of his life in that position.
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Reg Bettington died when his car left the road while he was driving to a clinic in Gisborne on a foggy day in 1969.
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Reg Bettington was survived by Marion and their daughter, Victoria.