Richard Wardill

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Richard Wardill
Personal information
Full nameRichard Wilson Wardill
Born(1840-11-03)3 November 1840
Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died17 August 1873(1873-08-17) (aged 32)
Melbourne, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium pace (roundarm)
RoleBatsman
RelationsBenjamin Wardill (brother)
Dick Wardill (son)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1861–73Victoria
1864G. Anderson's XI
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 10
Runs scored 381
Batting average 25.40
100s/50s 1/1
Top score 110
Balls bowled 202
Wickets 8
Bowling average 10.50
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/23
Catches/stumpings

Richard Wilson Wardill (3 November 1840 – 17 August 1873) was an Australian cricketer who played in ten first-class cricket matches, eight of which were for Victoria.

Family[]

The son of the stockbroker Joseph Wilson Wardill (1796-1866),[1] and Mary Wardill (1815-1878), née Briddon,[2] Richard Wilson Wardill was born at Everton, Liverpool, England on 3 November 1840. He was the brother of Benjamin Johnston Wardill (1842-1917).

He married Eliza Helena Lovett Cameron (1848-1943),[3] later Mrs. Edward Thomas Tatham,[4] on 18 May 1871. Their son, Richard Cameron Wardill (1872-1929) was born in Melbourne on 5 July 1872.[5]

Cricket[]

He was the first cricketer to score a century in Australian first-class cricket, when he made 110 and 45 not out in Victoria's victory over New South Wales in 1867-68.[6][7] Wardill was also an influential player and administrator in the early years of Australian rules football. On Boxing Day 1866 he captained the Melbourne Cricket Club against the Western District Aboriginal cricket team, led by Tom Wills.

Cricket writer Gideon Haigh published an article on Wardill in 1992 titled "The Drowned Bradman".

Football[]

In between 1859 and 1861 he played a number of games of Australian Rules Football with (pre-VFL) Melbourne, Richmond, and St Kilda.[8]

Death[]

Wardill committed suicide by drowning himself in the Yarra River on 17 August 1873.

"In 1872-73 Wardill had serious personal problems probably because of speculation in mining shares; he embezzled £7000 from his employers, the Victoria Sugar Co. On 17 August 1873, aged 38, he committed suicide by jumping into the Yarra River…" — Australian Dictionary of Biography.[9][10][11][12]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Deaths: Wardill, (Saturday, 12 May 1866), p.2.
  2. ^ Deaths: Wardill, The Australian Sketcher, (Saturday, 16 March 1878), p.2.
  3. ^ Marriages: Wardill—Cameron, The Argus, (Saturday, 20 May 1871), p.4.
  4. ^ Marriages: Tatham—Wardill, The Argus, (Saturday, 13 April 1907), p.11.
  5. ^ Births: Wardill, The Argus, (Tuesday, 16 July 1872), p.4.
  6. ^ "Richard Wardill". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Victoria v NSW 1867-68". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  8. ^ Demonwiki.
  9. ^ Cranfield, L.R. (1976), "Richard Wilson Wardill (1835–1873)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6.
  10. ^ Extracts from Victoria Police Gazette: Felonies and Offences not otherwise Described: Richard Wilson Wardill, The New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime, No.36, (Wednesday, 3 September 1873), p.262: "£250 reward for arrest".
  11. ^ The Late R. W. Wardill: Finding of the Body, The Argus, (Friday, 5 September 1873), p.7.
  12. ^ The Inquest on R.W. Wardill, The Argus, (Saturday, 6 September 1873), p.7.

References[]

  • Haigh, Gideon, "The drowned Bradman", Independent Monthly, (December 1991-January 1992), pp.23-24.

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