Osmond Ardagh


Osmond Charles Ardagh was an English first-class cricketer who played a single match for Oxford University in 1922. He was born at Haslemere, Surrey and was found drowned in the river Thames at Wallingford, then in Berkshire.

Cricket career

In his single first-class cricket appearance, he opened the batting in the match against Leicestershire and scored just two runs. He also played a few matches for Surrey's second eleven in the Minor Counties in 1920 and 1922.

Personal life

In 1925, when his forthcoming marriage to Margot Irene Biheller was announced in The Times, he was credited as "of the Nyasaland Government Service". When she died in 1969, The Times recorded that they had had two sons, John and Hugh. His son John Ardagh was a noted journalist and writer on contemporary France. His grandson Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, and the founder of Awakening Coaching.