Competition | First-class |
---|---|
Matches | 6 |
Runs scored | 199 |
Batting average | 19.90 |
100s/50s | 0/1 |
Top score | 54 |
Balls bowled | |
Wickets | 32 |
Bowling average | 8.06 |
5 wickets in innings | 1 |
10 wickets in match | 1 |
Best bowling | 8/13 |
Catches/stumpings | 10/0 |
Joseph "Pentland" Firth CMG (25 March 1859 –13 April 1931) was a New Zealand educationalist and teacher. He was the headmaster of Wellington College from 1892 to 1920. He was born and died in Wellington.
Born in Wellington on 25 March 1859,Firth was the son of Aaron Firth,a stonemason,and Ann Firth (née Priestnell). The family moved to Cobden on the South Island's West Coast during the West Coast Gold Rush of 1864 to 1867. [1]
On 8 May 1889,Firth married Janet McRae at the Church of St Michael and All Angels,Christchurch. The couple did not have any children. [1]
Firth won a scholarship to Nelson College, [1] and was a pupil there from 1873 to 1875. [2] He taught there as a pupil-teacher until 1881,when he went to Wellington College as a junior master. In 1886,he took up a post at Christ's College,Christchurch,and began studying for his BA at Canterbury College,graduating in 1889. He was asked to become headmaster of Wellington College in 1892. [1]
Among the boys at Wellington College he gained the nickname "Pentland" from his teaching about the troubles the Spanish Armada encountered around Pentland Firth in the north of Scotland. Thereafter he signed his name "J.P. Firth". [1]
Firth played six first-class cricket matches between 1880 and 1886,five for Wellington and one for Nelson. [3] By far the best performance of his career came for Wellington against Hawke's Bay in February 1884,when he ran through the second innings with figures of 8 for 13. [4] Captaining Wellington against Nelson in March 1885,he opened both batting and bowling,taking 3 for 27 and 2 for 19 and making 20 and 54,the highest score in the match. [5] In the second innings he and William Salmon put on 100 for the first wicket,the first century stand made by Wellington batsmen for any wicket. [6]
Firth was the representative from New Zealand on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1923 to 1927;his appointment by the IOC was delayed as he was quoted in a local newspaper that he was the delegate from New Zealand before he went (representatives are appointed by the IOC itself,not by the national Olympic committee).
In the 1922 King's Birthday Honours,Firth was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George,for public services. [7]
Firth suffered from Parkinson's disease,and he died in Wellington on 13 April 1931. [1]
Thomas Coleman Lowry was a New Zealand international cricketer. He was New Zealand's first Test captain,and led the team in their first seven Test matches between January 1930 and August 1931. He played first-class cricket from 1918 to 1937. He was a farmer and racehorse breeder in Hawke's Bay,who served as president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association from 1951 to 1965.
Frederick Theodore Badcock was a New Zealand first-class and Test cricketer. Perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period,he played seven Test matches for New Zealand between 1930 and 1933,including New Zealand's inaugural Test in 1930. He was the first players capped by New Zealand.
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This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket to 1890.
During the 1882–83 New Zealand cricket season,the first class cricket consisted of six matches:an Auckland team went on a tour in December including three games,two in the South Island and in Wellington on the southern tip of the North Island,and three further local clashes.
An English team raised by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) toured New Zealand between December 1906 and March 1907. The tour comprised two first-class matches against New Zealand,two each against the four main provincial teams –Auckland,Canterbury,Otago and Wellington –and one against Hawke's Bay. There were also five minor matches against teams from country areas.
The Hawke's Bay cricket team,representing the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand,played first-class cricket between 1883–84 and 1920–21,and competed in the Plunket Shield in the 1914–15 and 1920–21 seasons. The side has continued to appear in minor cricket and now competes in the Hawke Cup competition.
John Ulric Collins was a New Zealand cricketer who played six first-class matches:one for Nelson in 1884–85 and five for Canterbury between 1892–93 and 1895–96. As a teenager,he had also appeared in a minor match for a Wellington XXII that had much the worse of a draw against a ten-man Australians side in 1886–87.
The Australia national cricket team toured New Zealand from February to April 1914 and played eight first-class matches including two against the New Zealand national team. New Zealand at this time had not been elevated to Test status. The tour was organized and captained by Arthur Sims,who had previously represented New Zealand. The tour is notable for the fact that it featured Victor Trumper's final appearance in a first-class match before his death at age 37 in 1915.
Thomas Wilson Reese was a New Zealand first-class cricketer who played for Canterbury from 1888 to 1918,and later wrote a two-volume history of New Zealand cricket.
Charles Wilson Garrard was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1887 to 1904. A school teacher,he became Senior Inspector of Schools for the Auckland district.
Charles Harrington Broad was a New Zealand cricketer,rugby union player,and school teacher. He played eight first-class cricket matches for Nelson and Otago between 1888 and 1900,three representative games for the Nelson rugby team in 1894 and 1895,and was headmaster of Nelson College from 1922 to 1933.
Arthur Hector Gore was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1886 to 1902.
George Charles Heenan was a New Zealand cricketer,schoolteacher and geologist.
William Joseph Salmon was a businessman and first-class cricketer in New Zealand.
Malcolm "Harry" Moorhouse was an English-born cricketer who played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Canterbury and Wellington from 1884 to 1908.
The Australian cricket team toured New Zealand in late November and early December 1886.
John William Allman Marchant was a New Zealand Surveyor-General and first-class cricketer.
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