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Thomas Kingsland

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Thomas Kingsland". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. ^ "John Kingsland". AJL Associates. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Obituary". Otago Daily Times: 9. 12 December 1933.
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