William Henty
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Full name | William Henty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1808-09-23)23 September 1808 West Tarring, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 11 July 1881(1881-07-11) (aged 72) Hove, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | underarm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1851–52 | Tasmania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 11 February 1851 Tasmania v Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last First-class | 29 March 1852 Tasmania v Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], 5 January 2011 |
William Henty (23 September 1808 in West Tarring, Sussex, England – 11 July 1881 in Hove, Sussex, England). He moved to Van Diemen's Land in 1837 and for over 20 years practised as a solicitor. In 1857 he was elected a member of the legislative council for Tamar and was colonial secretary in the Weston cabinet. He held this office for five and a half years until his resignation in 1862.[1]
He was also an Australian cricketer, who played two games for Tasmania in 1851. He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia, and having bowled the first ever ball in a first class cricket match in Australia. He opened the bowling for Tasmania in both innings, bowling right arm underarm, and took 4/52, and 5/26 for 9/78 for the match.
He returned to England in 1862, where he remained until his death on 11 July 1881 in Hove, Sussex, England at the age of 72.[2][3]
He was interested in Shakespeare and after his death a small volume by him, Shakespeare with some Notes on his early Biography, was printed for private circulation. This has little value but contains a memoir of the author by R. Harrison.
See also
Notes
- ^ "William Henty". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ Bassett (1966).
- ^ The Late Mr. Wm. Henty, The (Hobart) Mercury, (Saturday, 10 September 1881), p. 2.
References
- Bassett, Marnie (1966). "Henty, William (1808–1881)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- Henty, William (1882), Shakespeare, with Some Notes on his early Biography and an Identification of the Characters of William Fenton and Ann Page with William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, Edinburgh: Ballantyne Press.
- Hurse, J. Lewis (1933), "Venture and Adventure: The Romantic Story of the Henty Family"
- "No.1", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Monday, 31 July 1933), p. 8.
- "No.2", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Tuesday, 1 August 1933), p. 5.
- "No.3", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Wednesday, 2 August 1933), p. 9.
- "No.4", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Friday, 4 August 1933), p. 9.
- "No.5", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Wednesday, 9 August 1933), p. 3.
- "No.6", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Thursday, 10 August 1933), p. 10.
- "No.7", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Monday, 14 August 1933), p. 8.
- "No.8", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Thursday, 17 August 1933), p. 8.
- "No.9", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Tuesday, 22 August 1933), p. 9.
- "No.10", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Saturday, 26 August 1933), p. 9.
- "No.11", The (Launceston) Examiner, (Tuesday, 29 August 1933), p. 8.
External links
- William Henty at ESPNcricinfo
- William Henty at CricketArchive (subscription required)
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