Harry Heath
Henry Francis Trafford "Harry" Heath (19 December 1885 – 9 July 1967) was an Australian cricketer and clergyman.
Born in Kadina, South Australia, Heath appeared in three first-class matches for the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI and South Australia between 1919 and 1924 as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm slow-medium pace. His best performance was 5 for 43 in a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales in December 1923. A late inclusion in the South Australian side, he bowled through the first innings unchanged to dismiss New South Wales for 98; all five of his victims were Test batsmen.[1][2] At the time he was the Methodist minister at the inner Adelaide suburb of Rose Park.[3]
Heath served as a Methodist chaplain to the Australian armed forces in World War I.[4] He married Irene Whellas Bain at the United Free Church of Scotland in Aberdeen on 12 September 1919.[5] They returned to South Australia in 1920, but a few years later they moved to Scotland, where he became a minister in the United Free Church in Edinburgh in 1926.[6] He died in Edinburgh on 9 July 1967.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Harry Heath". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ "South Australia v New South Wales 1923-24". Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ "Getting Their Own Back". The Advertiser: 13. 15 December 1923.
- ^ "Chaplains: Appointments, Terminations, Etc". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 337–38. 21 February 1918. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Australian Chaplains in WW1". ww1chaplains.gravesecrets.net. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Rev. H. F. T. Heath". Saturday Journal: 14. 20 February 1926. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
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[edit]- 1885 births
- 1967 deaths
- Australian cricketers
- Australian Army chaplains
- Australian Imperial Force Touring XI cricketers
- South Australia cricketers
- Australian Methodist ministers
- Australian emigrants to Scotland
- Clergy from South Australia
- Ministers of the United Free Church of Scotland
- Sportsmen from South Australia
- 20th-century Australian Methodist ministers
- 20th-century Scottish clergy