Lawrence Reade (cricketer, born 1846)

Lawrence Edward Reade (8 November 1846 – 17 August 1910) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between 1869 and 1877.[1]

Lawrence Reade
Personal information
Full nameLawrence Edward Reade
Born(1846-11-08)8 November 1846
Gorakhpur, India
Died17 August 1910(1910-08-17) (aged 63)
Wellington, New Zealand
RelationsEdward Anderton Reade (father)
Charles Reade (uncle)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1869-70Canterbury
1871-72 – 1876-77Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 114
Batting average 12.66
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 38
Balls bowled 438
Wickets 11
Bowling average 17.36
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/73
Catches/stumpings 5/0
Source: Cricinfo, 29 April 2017

Early life and family

Lawrence Reade was born in India, where his father, Edward Anderton Reade, was an administrator for the East India Company in the Bengal Presidency. One of Lawrence's uncles was the novelist Charles Reade.[2][3] Lawrence attended Tonbridge School in Kent before moving to New Zealand in 1869[4] and completing his legal studies in Dunedin.[2] He moved to Oamaru in 1873, and in 1875 was admitted to the bar.[4]

Cricket career

Reade was a batsman and a "right-hand medium-paced bowler, with a graceful delivery".[5] Playing for Otago against Canterbury in 1870-71 he top-scored in each innings with 33 and 22 and also had Otago's best bowling figures of 4 for 73.[6] He made his highest score of 38 against Canterbury in 1873-74, when he put on a partnership of 96 for the second wicket in a match in which Canterbury's two innings totalled only 116.[7] When James Lillywhite's XI made short work of Southland in 1876-77, Reade, Southland's captain, top-scored in each innings, with 8 and 10.[8]

He retained his interest in cricket as a player and an umpire for the rest of his life.[9]

Later career and personal life

He married Margaret Hannah Booth in Oamaru on 15 March 1876.[10] They lived in several places in New Zealand and Australia. He was elected mayor of the Borough of East Invercargill in 1884,[4] and later served as a commissioner with the Supreme Courts of Tasmania and New South Wales.[11] Eventually they settled in Foxton, Manawatu, where Lawrence worked as a solicitor.[9]

They had three sons.[9] Margaret died on 14 August 1908, aged 60.[12] On 2 July 1910, while visiting a son in Wellington, Lawrence fell from a tram and suffered a brain injury, from which he died on 17 August.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Lawrence Reade". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  2. "Mr. Lawrence E. Reade". Evening Post. LXXX (41): 5. 17 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  3. "E. A. Reade, 'The Benefice of North Stoke ...'". St John's College. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  4. "Fatal Fall from Electric Tramcar". New Zealand Times. XXXII (7209): 1. 18 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  5. "The Australian Eleven v. Twenty-Two of Invercargill". The Age: 3. 21 January 1878.
  6. "Canterbury v Otago 1870-71". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  7. "Otago v Canterbury 1873-74". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  8. "Southland v James Lillywhite's XI 1876-77". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  9. "L. E. Reade—Aged 63 Years". Manawatu Herald. XXXIII (880): 3. 18 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  10. "Marriage". Western Star (132): 4. 18 March 1876. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  11. "Legal". NZETC: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  12. "Deaths". Manawatu Herald. XXX (425): 2. 18 August 1908. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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