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Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet (9 January 1822 – 16 August 1879) was a Scottish first-class cricketer.

The son of Sir David Moncreiffe, 6th Baronet, he was born in January 1822 at Moncreiffe House near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. He was educated at Harrow School. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Lord's in 1841. He served as a deputy lieutenant of Perthshire in 1846. He served in the

The son of Colonel Alexander Boddam-Whetham and his wife, Maria, Boddam-Whetham was born at Kirklington Hall in May 1843. He was educated at Eton College, though he did not represent the college XI in cricket. He did however make a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South at Beeston in 1870. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in the Gentlemen of the North first-innings by W. G. Grace, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by his brother, Fred Grace, for 5 runs.

During the 1870s he became a well known naturalist and traveller. He toured the western United States in the early 1870s, which included an ascent of Mount Shasta. From there he departed for Australia, and from Sydney he took a boat to Honolulu, arriving in July 1874. During his tour of the Hawaiian Islands, he attempted unsuccesfully to recover a specimen of Moho nobilis for the British Museum, a now extinct bird which was endemic to the islands. After travelling to Fiji and Samoa, he returned to Hawaii and was this time successful in recovering a pair of the birds. He returned to London in 1876. He left for a tour of Central and South America in 1877, setting out to climb Mount Roraima in British Guiana, arriving in Georgetown in January 1878. He joined a colonial government led exhibition to reach the summit of the mountain, but after a long trek through the rainforest they were unsuccessful. He continued his travels around Central America, returning to London in 1879. He published several accounts of his travels. Following his travels in the 1870s, little is known of his later life, besides his marriage to Harriet Manning in November 1882 at North Shore, Sydney. He died at Folkstone in March 1918.