Charles Lister
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 November 1811 Armitage Park, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 18 August 1873 (aged 61) Laverstock Asylum, Wiltshire, England |
| Domestic team information | |
| Years | Team |
| 1851-1852 | Victoria |
Source: Cricinfo, 15 January 2015 | |
Charles Lister (7 November 1811 – 18 August 1873) was an English dandy and civil servant, who encountered money troubles from around age 30. He was later cricketer in Australia.
Life
[edit]He was the youngest son of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park in Staffordshire, England, and his second wife Mary Grove, daughter of William Grove (1702–1767) MP;[1][2] Thomas Henry Lister was an older half-brother.[3] He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1825 to 1830.[4]
Lister matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1831.[5] His niece Adelaide Lister Drummond described him in his Oxford days:
"... indeed, a very attractive person at this time. He was dressed in the extreme of fashion—yellow nankeen waistcoat and continuations, a coat of aggressive spring green, very short in the waist;— in short, a finished dandy of that day, when D'Orsay flourished and Beau Brummel was not forgotten.[6]
Lister married in 1834 Mary Stephens, daughter of William Stephens, and they had four daughters.[2] His sister Adelaide married firstly Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (died 1832); and then, secondly, in 1835, Lord John Russell, who that year became Home Secretary.[7] Russell in 1836 gave Lister a clerkship in the Home Department, where in 1840 he worked in the Secretary of State's Office.[8][9] In 1841 Lister, then of Fyfield, was declared an insolvent debtor, having lived in a number of residences, including Boulogne in 1839–1840.[10]
In a court case of 1855, it was mentioned in evidence from Richard Gosling of the bank Gosling & Sharp that Charles Lister, who had been "unfortunate", brought cheques from Edward Hartopp Cradock to the bank, up to some five years earlier.[11] Cradock was the husband of Harriet Cradock, third child of Thomas Lister and Mary Grove.[12]
Lister died at Laverstock, Wiltshire on 18 August 1873.[1]
Cricket
[edit]Lister played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria, in 1851–2.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Died". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. 22 August 1873. p. 12.
- ^ a b Denny, Henry Lyttelton Lyster (1913). Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster. Edinburgh: printed for the author by Ballantyne, Hanson. p. 139.
- ^ Hawes, Donald. "Lister, Thomas Henry (1800–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16768. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury; Auden, John Ernest (1909). Shrewsbury School register, 1734-1908. Oswestry, Woodall. p. 55.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Champneys, Basil (1915). The Honourable Adelaide Drummond; retrospect and memoir (27 ed.). London Smith, Elder.
- ^ Prest, John. "Russell, John [formerly Lord John Russell], first Earl Russell (1792–1878)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24325. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The Spectator. The Spectator. 1836. p. 1154.
- ^ The British Imperial Calendar, on General Register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Its Colonies (etc.). Arthur Varenham. 1840. p. 144.
- ^ Britain, Great (1841). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 1419.
- ^ "Old Bailey Proceedings: CHARLES BRIDGEMAN. Deception: forgery. 7th May 1855". May 1855.
- ^ Denny, Henry Lyttelton Lyster (1913). Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster. Edinburgh: printed for the author by Ballantyne, Hanson. p. 141.
- ^ "Charles Lister". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
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