Henry Boyd Sutherland (4 December 1844 – 27 August 1915) was an English officer in the British Army during the 19th century who played in two first-class cricket matches as an amateur in the early 1870s.
Henry Sutherland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 September 1899 Croydon, Surrey |
| Died | 4 August 1963 (aged 63) St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1866–1884 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) |
| Battles / wars | Anglo-Zulu War |
Sutherland was born at Croydon in Surrey in 1844,[1] the son of John and Mary Sutherland. His father owned land and was a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey and Sutherland was educated at Eton College where he was in the cricket XI between 1861 and 1863.[2][3][4][5][6] After leaving school he initially planned to work in the law before choosing to join the British Army in June 1866, commissioned as an Ensign serving in the 4th battalion, The King's Own Royal Regiment.[2] After initially serving in Canada at the Halifax Citadel in Nova Scotia,[7][8] Sutherland was promoted to lieutenant in 1870 and captain in 1879 before retiring from the army in 1884.[9][10] He served in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 as the garrison adjutant at Maritzburg and, after an accident at the base, was invalided home. He was awarded the South Africa Medal.[11][12][13]
Throughout his time in the army, Sutherland played cricket. He played for Cheshire and the Gentlemen of Cheshire whilst stationed at Chester between 1869 and 1871 and played regularly for the Eton Ramblers and, from 1873, for I Zingari.[2][6][8] He was stationed at Aldershot and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich in the south of England between 1871 and 1874. During this time he played in two first-class cricket matches, first appearing for Kent County Cricket Club against the Gentlemen of the MCC during the 1871 Canterbury Cricket Week and then, in 1883, appearing against Kent in the same fixture.[5][6]
Sutherland married Harriett Jennings in 1889 but had no children.[2] He died at St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex in August 1915 aged 70.[1][5]
References
edit- ^ a b Henry Sutherland, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^ a b c d Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 511. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ Stapylton HEC (1884) 'A list of the cricket elevens and the crews of the eight from 1851 to 1878' in The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1877. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-06.)
- ^ Stapylton op. cit., p.291.
- ^ a b c Mr Henry Boyd Sutherland, Obituaries in 1915, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1916. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^ a b c Henry Sutherland, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^ Photo gallery, King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^ a b Service record for Henry Boyd Sutherland, from The National Archives, Catalogue Reference: WO/76/116.
- ^ Hart AF (ed) (1884) New annual army list, militia list, yeomanry cavalry list, and Indian civil service list, 1884, p.238. London: John Murray. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-06.)
- ^ The London Gazette, 7 March 1879, p.1963. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-06.)
- ^ Hart AF (ed) (1888) New annual army list, militia list, yeomanry cavalry list, and Indian civil service list, 1888, p.577a. London: John Murray. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-06.)
- ^ Captain Henry Boyd Sutherland, 4th Regiment of Foot, 1879ZuluWar. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^ Naval And Military Intelligence, The Times, 1878-12-14, p.10.