Personal information | |
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Full name | John Lamb Wilkie |
Born | New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland | 29 January 1877
Died | 19 June 1963 Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand | (aged 86)
Relations | Robert Wilkie (brother) |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1901/02 | Otago |
Source: Cricinfo, 28 May 2016 |
John Lamb Wilkie (29 January 1877 – 19 June 1963) was a Scottish-born cricketer. He played two first-class matches in New Zealand for Otago during the 1901–02 season.[1][2]
Wilkie was born at New Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1877,[3] the son of John Lamb Wilkie and his wife Annie (née Reid). His father worked as a coachman before the family emigrated to New Zealand in 1883 onboard the SS Trevelyan, settling at Dunedin in Otago.[4] His father established a flour mill at Mosgiel near Dunedin in Otago. Wilkie and his brother, David, later joined the business which operated as Wilkie & Co., remaining as partners in the business after there father's death in 1926.[5][6][7] The partnership was dissolved in 1940.[8]
Along with his brother Robert, Wilkie played for Dunedin Cricket Club.[9] The brothers played together in an Otago XI against Southland in February 1900,[10] and during the following season Wilkie played both of his first-class matches for Otago. On debut against Canterbury at Christchurch he recorded a duck before scoring 73 runs in his second innings, whilst against Hawke's Bay he scored 49 runs in the only innings in which he batted and took a wicket.[2] He played for Dunedin until at least 1910.[11]
Wilkie died at Mosgiel in 1963. He was aged 86.[1] Either his mother Annie or his sister, Annie Will, were a signatory of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition whilst the family lived in Lees Street in Dunedin.[4]