Lawrence Edward Reade (8 November 1846 – 17 August 1910) was a New Zealand solicitor and cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between the 1869–70 and 1876–77 seasons.[1]
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| Full name | Lawrence Edward Reade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 November 1846 Gorakhpore, Bengal Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 August 1910 (aged 63) Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1869/70 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1871/72–1876/77 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life and family edit
Lawrence Reade was born in British 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 where he played in the school cricket XI in his final year,[4][5][6] before moving to New Zealand in 1869[7] and completing his legal studies in Dunedin.[2] He moved to Oamaru in 1873, and in 1875 was admitted to the bar.[7]
Cricket career edit
Reade was a batsman and a "right-hand medium-paced bowler, with a graceful delivery".[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11]
He retained his interest in cricket as a player and an umpire for the rest of his life.[12]
Later career and personal life edit
Reade married Margaret Hannah Booth in Oamaru on 15 March 1876.[13] They lived in several places in New Zealand and Australia. He was elected mayor of the Borough of East Invercargill in 1884,[7] and practiced law in the city.[6] During the 1880s he served as a commissioner with the Supreme Courts of Tasmania and New South Wales[14] and later ran the Intestacy Department at the Public Trust Office in Wellington until 1902 when he settled in Foxton, Manawatu, where Reade worked as a solicitor.[6][12]
They had three sons.[12] Margaret died on 14 August 1908, aged 60.[15] On 2 July 1910, while visiting a son in Wellington, Lawrence fell from a tram and suffered a head injury. After an apparently successful operation he began to suffer fits and died after a second operation on 17 August aged 63.[1][12][5]
References edit
- ^ a b "Lawrence Reade". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Mr. Lawrence E. Reade". Evening Post. LXXX (41): 5. 17 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "E. A. Reade, 'The Benefice of North Stoke ...'". St John's College. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ Lawrence Reade, CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 December 2023. (subscription required)
- ^ a b McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 110. 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.)
- ^ a b c Steed HS (1911) The Register of Tonbridge School from 1826 to 1910, p. 99. London: Rivingtons. (Available online at The Internet Archive. Retrieved 14 December 2023.)
- ^ a b c "Fatal Fall from Electric Tramcar". New Zealand Times. XXXII (7209): 1. 18 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "The Australian Eleven v. Twenty-Two of Invercargill". The Age: 3. 21 January 1878.
- ^ "Canterbury v Otago 1870-71". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ "Otago v Canterbury 1873-74". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ "Southland v James Lillywhite's XI 1876-77". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ a b c d "L. E. Reade—Aged 63 Years". Manawatu Herald. XXXIII (880): 3. 18 August 1910. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Marriage". Western Star (132): 4. 18 March 1876. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Legal". NZETC: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Deaths". Manawatu Herald. XXX (425): 2. 18 August 1908. Retrieved 30 April 2017.