Leonard Monk
Personal information
Full name
Leonard Stanley Monk
Born(1873-11-14)14 November 1873
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Died21 July 1948(1948-07-21) (aged 74)
Edgecliff, Sydney, Australia
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 17 May 2016

Leonard Stanley Monk (14 November 1873 – 21 July 1948) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Otago during 1901–02 season.[1]

Born at Dunedin in 1873,[2] Monk was a fast bowler of considerable pace.[3] After one first-class match in December 1901 in which he secured four wickets cheaply, and Otago won,[4] he left Dunedin to tour with the Hawtrey Comedy Company, which also fielded a cricket team on its tours.[5] He remained in the theatre as an actor and manager, touring in Australia and New Zealand.[6][7] He represented the Shakespearean actor Allan Wilkie in the 1920s.[8]

Monk served with the Australian forces in World War One.[9] He married Elsie Stephanie Austin in July 1934[10] and died at Edgecliff in Sydney in 1948 at the age of 74.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leonard Monk". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ↑ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 94. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  3. ↑ "Cricket". Otago Daily Times: 10. 9 January 1913.
  4. ↑ "Canterbury v Otago 1901-02". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Interprovincial Cricket". Evening Star: 8. 27 December 1901.
  6. ↑ "Theatrical and Musical Notes". Otago Witness: 67. 24 August 1910.
  7. ↑ "Cricket". Otago Witness: 60. 8 February 1911.
  8. ↑ "Personal". The Register: 6. 3 February 1925.
  9. ↑ "War Memories". Otago Daily Times: 4. 15 December 1922.
  10. ↑ "Woman's Realm". The Australasian: 11. 30 June 1934.
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