Valentine Simpson

Valentine Simpson (15 August 1849 — 2 November 1915) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of John Henry Simpson,[1] he was born at Newington in August 1859. A club cricketer for Reigate Priory Cricket Club, he later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Kent at Southampton in 1885.[2] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in Hampshire's first innings by Alec Hearne, while in their second innings he was dismissed by Jimmy Wootton.[3] Outside of cricket, Simpson was a pastoral farmer. He farmed a herd of roughly sixty Jersey and Guernsey cattle, which he sold in February 1883, alongside Albany Farm near Fareham.[4] He was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, having been elected in 1873.[5] He was also associated as a club cricketer with Fareham Cricket Club, where he was described as "Fareham's Jessop" and was described by the Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer as being a "forcing bat, with an eye like a hawk, and hardly ever known to miss a catch".[6][7] Simpson died at Fareham in November 1915.