Anton Syrée
Anton Hugh Syrée (21 October 1859 – 9 January 1924) was a South African-born English doctor who played on first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1879.
Syrée was born at in Cape Colony in 1859.[1] He made his only known senior cricket appearance against Nottinghamshire at Canterbury in June 1879.[2]
Syrée was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, living for a period at Northallerton in Yorkshire where his wife died in 1887.[3] He died at Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire in January 1924 aged 64,[1] having committed suicide by administering an overdose of strychnine.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
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- 1859 births
- 1924 suicides
- English cricketers
- Kent cricketers
- Suicides in England
- Suicides by poison