| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Leonard Montague Harris |
| Born | (1855-12-21)21 December 1855 Swansea, Van Diemen's Land, Australia |
| Died | 27 April 1947(1947-04-27) (aged 91) Durban, Natal, South Africa |
| Batting | Left-handed |
| Domestic team information | |
| Years | Team |
| 1881/82–1887/88 | Otago |
| 1891/92–1893/94 | Wellington |
| Source: CricketArchive, 28 February 2024 | |
Leonard Montague Harris (21 December 1855 – 27 April 1947) was an Australian-born cricketer. He played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Otago and Wellington between the 1881–82 and 1893–94 seasons.
Harris was born at Swansea in what was then still Van Diemen's Land in 1855. After moving to New Zealand he played club cricket for Dunedin Cricket Club. Considered a "fine left-handed" batsman He played a total of 11 first-class matches, nine for Otago between 1881–82 and 1887–88 and then two for Wellington, one in each of the 1891–92 and 1893–94 seasons. He scored 348 first-class runs, playing several innings for Otago which were later described as "excellent", and took a single wicket.
Professionally Harris was a flax merchant, working for Guthrie and Larnach in Dunedin before becoming the manager of the Wellington branch of AS Patterson. He was prosecuted under the bankruptcy act in 1900 but the case was dismissed, He established his own firm in Wellington in January the following year, but by November has moved to Durban in South Africa where he planned to import butter from New Zealand. He travelled to England in 1930, visiting Lord's to watch a Test match and by 1940 owned a set of buildings in Durban. He died at Durban in 1947. He was aged 91.
References
- "Player Profile: Leonard Montague Harris". CricInfo. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 63. 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 2023-06-05.)
- Dunedin Cricket Club, Otago Daily Times, issue 6388, 3 August 1882, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
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- Special telegrams, Evening Star, issue 10647, 11 June 1898, p. 3 (Supplement). (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
- ^ Personal, Otago Daily Times, issue 24238, 4 March 1940, p. 8. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
- The Evening Star, Evening Star, issue 11003, 5 August 1899, p. 2. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
- Charges against LM Harris, The Evening Post, volume LX, issue 110, 6 November 1900, p. 5. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
- The charge against LM Harris, New Zealand Herald, volume XXXVII, issue 11527, 12 November 1900, p. 5. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
- Local and general, The Evening Post, volume LXI, issue 18, 22 January 1901, p. 4. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)
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- A tour of England, Otago Daily Times, issue 21153, 10 October 1930, p. 6. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-12-21.)