Terence Battersby

Brigadier Terence Esmond Maxwell Battersby (29 October 1893 – 10 January 1972) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. Battersby was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Meerut, then in the British Raj, before moving back to England where he was educated at Marlborough College. There he played for the college cricket team.

Battersby represented Suffolk in the 1913 Minor Counties Championship, playing a single match against Lincolnshire. Battersby was menitioned in the London Gazette in February 1914 as having graduated from the Royal Military College with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. After graduating he joined the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment who he served in the First World War within the regiments 1st Battalion. He was once again mentioned in a supplement to the Gazette in 1920, detailing his special appointment to Vice Captain while still serving in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment.

A decade later he made his first-class debut for the Europeans (India) against the Parsees, before playing a further first-class match in that 1923/24 season against the Hindus. Returning to England once more, he played a further first-class match in 1926 for the Army against Oxford University. In his three first-class appearances he scored 110 runs at a batting average of 18.33, with a high score of 41. With the ball he took 2 wickets at a bowling average of 63.00.

Terence

Publius Terentius Afer (/təˈrɛnʃiəs, -ʃəs/; c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (/ˈtɛrəns/), was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

Biography

Terence's date of birth is disputed; Aelius Donatus, in his incomplete Commentum Terenti, considers the year 185 BC to be the year Terentius was born;Fenestella, on the other hand, states that he was born ten years earlier, in 195 BC.

He may have been born in or near Carthage or in Greek Italy to a woman taken to Carthage as a slave. Terence's cognomen Afer suggests he lived in the territory of the Libyan tribe called by the Romans Afri near Carthage prior to being brought to Rome as a slave. This inference is based on the fact that the term was used in two different ways during the republican era: during Terence's lifetime, it was used to refer to non-Carthaginian Libyco-Berbers, with the term Punicus reserved for the Carthaginians. Later, after the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, it was used to refer to anyone from the land of the Afri (Tunisia and its surroundings). It is therefore most likely that Terence was of Libyan descent, considered ancestors to the modern-day Berber peoples.

Terence (given name)

Terence is a male given name, derived from the Latin name Terentius. The diminutive form is Terry. Spelling variants include Terrence, Terance, and Terrance.

Notable people with this name

Battersby

Coordinates: 54°27′N 1°05′W / 54.45°N 01.09°W / 54.45; -01.09

Battersby is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the edge of the North York Moors National Park and within the historic boundaries of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 12 miles (19 km) south east of Middlesbrough.

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