William Henry Tracey Campbell Penney Vallange (15 August 1864 – 7 February 1924) was an English cricketer and medical doctor who played one first-class match in New Zealand for Otago.

Born at Kensington in London in 1864,McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 133. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) Vallange spent a few years in Dunedin during the 1880s. He played club cricket for Carisbrook and rugby union for Pirates FC whilst in the city, serving on the Carisbrook committee.Pirates Football Club: some early history, Otago Daily Times, issue 21750, 15 September 1932, p. 4. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 4 February 2024.)Carisbrook Cricket Club, Otago Daily Times, issue 7675, 23 September 1886, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 4 February 2024.)

Vallange played in an Otago team of 22 against the touring Australian side in November 1886, top-scoring for Otago with 18 runs in the team's first innings―the only batsman to reach double figures.Henry Vallange, CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2024. Cricket: Notes by Long Slip, Otago Witness, issue 3130, 11 March 1914, p. 53. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 4 February 2024.) Later in the season he played in Otago's only first-class match of the season. Playing against Canterbury, he scored 21 runs in the first innings and nine in the second.

In 1886 Vallange also played at fullback for the Otago Rugby Football Union representative side against Canterbury. Two years later he played for Otago against the touring British side led by Andrew Stoddart.A veteran Otago representative rugby team, Otago Witness, issue 3723, 21 July 1925, p. 36. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 4 February 2024.)

Vallange later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying as a doctor in 1894. He practised in London and died at Southwark in the city in February 1924. He was aged 59.

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