Anton Syrée
Anton Hugh Syrée (21 October 1859 – 9 January 1924) was a Cape Colony-born British medical doctor who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1879.[1]
Syrée was born at Port Corrie in Cape Colony in 1859.[2] He made his only known senior cricket appearance against Nottinghamshire at Canterbury in June 1879.[3]
Syrée was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, living for a period at Northallerton in Yorkshire where his wife died in 1887.[4] He died at Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire in January 1924 aged 64,[2] having committed suicide by administering an overdose of strychnine.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 514. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ a b Anton Syrée, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^ Anton Syrée, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-02. (subscription required)
- ^ Deaths, The Times, 1887-02-11, p. 1.
- ^ Firth, David (2011). Silence of the Heart: Cricket Suicides. Random House. ISBN 978-1780573939.