Thomas Kingsland
Personal information
Full name
Thomas Daniel Kingsland
Born(1862-06-16)16 June 1862
Lower Huntly, Victoria, Australia
Died8 December 1933(1933-12-08) (aged 71)
Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1877/78–1899/00Southland
1886/87Otago
Only FC24 February 1887 Otago v Canterbury
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 15 May 2016

Thomas Daniel Kingsland (16 June 1862 – 8 December 1933) was a New Zealand cricketer and businessman. He played one first-class match for Otago in 1886/87.[1]

Life and career

Kingsland's father John (1830–1922) was born in England and migrated to the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s. He was mining at Lower Huntly, near Bendigo, when Thomas was born,[2] and moved to Invercargill in New Zealand later that year.[3] John played cricket for Southland and was Mayor of Invercargill in the 1880s.[3][4] He founded a tanning, fellmongery and boot manufacturing company in Invercargill, of which Thomas later took charge.[5]

An all-rounder, Thomas Kingsland played most of his cricket for Southland, representing them in non-first-class matches between 1878 and 1900, including matches against the Australian touring teams in 1878 (when he was 15), 1880 and 1896.[6] He took four wickets in each innings against the touring Tasmanian team in 1884.[7] In his one first-class match for Otago he scored 22 (the top score in the innings) and 18, when Otago lost to Canterbury in 1886–87.[8] He later umpired Southland's first first-class match, when they played Otago at Rugby Park in February 1915[9] and was chairman of the Southland Cricket Association.[10]

He married Rosina Louisa Wilde in June 1888.[11] With his brother and another partner he renamed the family business Kingsland Brothers and Anderson. In the 1920s he left the business and became managing director of Southland Tanneries.[12] He died in December 1933, survived by his widow, one son and two daughters.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Thomas Kingsland". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "John Kingsland". AJL Associates. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Obituary". Press: 8. 11 April 1922.
  4. ↑ "John Kingsland". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "West Plains". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Miscellaneous Matches played by Thomas Kingsland". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Southland v Tasmania 1883–84". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Canterbury v Otago 1886–87". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Southland v Otago 1914–15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  10. ↑ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 76. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  11. ↑ "Marriage". Southland Times (22 June 1888): 2.
  12. 1 2 "Obituary". Otago Daily Times: 9. 12 December 1933.
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