William Brindley

Who was William Brindley?

Captain William Thomas Brindley OBE, OStJ, KPFSM was an English police officer. Brindley was also a cricketer, who played as a right-handed batsman, although his bowling style is not known. He was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and would later become a senior colonial police officer in Ceylon.

Brindley served in World War I, entering service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the reserve of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. By November 1917 he held the rank of Lieutenant and was still serving in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in that same month he was promoted to Acting Captain. Following the war, Brindley reverted to a Lieutenant on 25 June 1919. He left the British Army on 1 April 1920, upon resigning his commission he was granted the rank of Captain.

At some point following the war he joined the Ceylon Police Force. It was in this coming period of the 1920s and 1930s that Brindley played representative cricket. In England, he made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1925 Minor Counties Championship against the Kent Second XI.