David Rhodes (cricketer)
David Kirk Rhodes (20 June 1847 – 22 December 1937) was an English-born cricketer who played in New Zealand for Otago during the 1874–75 season.
Rhodes was born at Huddersfield in Yorkshire in 1847, the second son of John Turner, a woollen manufacturer in the town. He was educated at Huddersfield College and worked for his father before emigrating to Dunedin in New Zealand in 1872 where he established a wool merchants business.[1][2]
Rhodes played club cricket for Dunedin Cricket Club, where he was the Secretary for some time. He made a single first-class cricket appearance, playing for Otago against Canterbury in a January 1875 match at the Hagley Oval. He recorded a duck in his first innings and scored one not out in his second.[3] As well as cricket, Rhodes had an "excellent reputation" as a hurdle racer[4] who was an experienced athlete.[5] He also played representative rugby union for Otago.[6]
In 1875 Rhodes joined the New Zealand Railways Department and worked as a stationmaster, a post which also involved acting as the postmaster.[2] He worked at Herbert before moving to take up post at Waikouaiti in 1882.[7] He had also been in partnership with his brother as a importer of woollen goods; the partnership was dissolved in 1885.[8] He was married and had seven children when, in 1887, he was charged with embezzling a sum of around £130 from the post office accounts. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison.[9][10][11]
In 1891 Rhodes joined the Tasmanian Government Railways where he was appointed as a stationmaster after a few months.[2] From 1894 he worked for the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company and by 1897 he was living at Queenstown in Tasmania.[12] He died at Caulfield in Victoria in 1937. He was aged 90.[13]
References[edit]
- ^ Obituary, Mr D. K. Rhodes, The Mercury, 23 December 1937, p. 2. (Available online at Trove. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ a b c West Coast News, The Advocate, 30 December 1937, p. 8. (Available online at Trove. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ David Rhodes, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-06-03. (subscription required)
- ^ Untitled, Otago Daily Times, issue 3627, 19 September 1873, p. 2. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Pedesetrianism, Lyttelton Times, volume XLIV, issue 4557, 21 September 1875, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Interprovincial football match, Otago Witness, issue 1243, 25 September 1875, p. 16. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Oamaru Mail, volume IV, issue 1322, 27 November 1882, p. 2. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Public notices, Otago Daily Times, issue 4024, 11 January 1875, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Supreme Court, Otago Daily Times,iIssue 7838, 5 April 1887, p. 4. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ Supreme Court, Evening Star, issue 7179, 5 April 1887, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 112. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
- ^ Advertisements, Otago Witness, issue 2245, 11 March 1897, p. 29. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2023-06-03.)
- ^ David Rhodes, CricInfo. Retrieved 2023-06-03.