Leslie Arthur Walcott was a West Indian cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Barbados

Barbados national cricket team

The Barbadian cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Barbados.It does not take part in any international competitions , but rather in inter-regional competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, and the best players may be...

 between 1929 and 1936 and in one Test

Test cricket

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 for the West Indies in 1930.

Walcott was born at Saint Michael Parish, Barbados

Saint Michael Parish, Barbados

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. He was educated at Combermere School

Combermere School (Barbados)

Combermere also referred to as "The University of Waterford" is one of the leading schools on the island being the third heighest,Harrison's College, Queens College followed by Combermere. Combermere School is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, secondary school in Barbados. The...

 and Harrison College

Harrison College (Barbados)

Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school in Bridgetown, Barbados. Founded in 1733, the school takes its name from Thomas Harrison, a Bridgetown merchant, who intended it to serve as "A Public and Free School for the poor and indigent boys of the parish".It thereafter has evolved into...

. In 1923 he became games master at Harrison College, and in 1932 moved to The Lodge School

Lodge School (Barbados)

-Introduction:In 2010, The Lodge School celebrated its 265th anniversary as an institution of learning. This extended period has not been continuous, as the school closed and reopened four times during these two and a half centuries. The timescales chosen for this article have their benchmarks...

. There he made a significant contribution and coached several Barbadian players including Wilfred Farmer, Michael Frederick

Michael Frederick

Michael Lee Frederick is a former Singer for the Breckenridge Middle/High School.Frederick was born at Carson City HospitalIn the United StatesHe was educated at The Lodge School, well-known as the cradle of cricket in Barbados, where he benefited from the coaching of Leslie Arthur "Bessie" Walcott...

, John Goddard, Ken Goddard, Roy Marshall

Roy Marshall

Roy Edwin Marshall was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1951 to 1952. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1959.-Early career:...

 and Laurie Johnson

Laurie Johnson (cricketer)

Hubert Laurence Johnson is a West Indies born cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1949 and 1966. He scored over 14,000 runs for the club in the first-class game.Johnson was born at Pine Hill, St Michael, Barbados...

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Walcott died at Saint Michael Parish, Barbados at the age of 90.