Harold Austin
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| Full name | Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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15 July 1877 Enmore, St Michael, Barbados |
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| Died | 27 July 1943 (aged 66) Collymore Rock, St Michael, Barbados |
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| Batting style | Right-hand batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1894/95-1925/26 | Barbados | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1909-1926 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 19 January 1895 Barbados v RS Lucas' XI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 7 January 1928 Barbados Born v "The Rest" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 8 July 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin OBE (15 July 1877 in Enmore, St. Michael, Barbados – 27 July 1943 at Collymore Rock, St. Michael, Barbados) was a West Indian politician and cricketer. He was known as H.B.G..
Austin was the son of John Gardiner Austin, a shipper connected with the sugar trade, and his wife Dorothy and was educated at Harrison College, Barbados. He married Lillian Marie Dennehy in St. Lucia in 1904 and had two daughters.
Austin was awarded the OBE in 1927, was knighted in 1935 and was Speaker of the Barbados House of Assembly. He lost his seat to Charles Duncan O'Neal in 1932 by one vote.
Austin captained the West Indian cricket teams that toured England in 1906 and 1923. He was a right hand batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. He was one of a family of cricketers which included his brothers John ("Ruff"), Arthur("A.P.G."), Malcolm ("M.P.G.") and Francis. H.B.G.s younger daughter Clodagh married Gilbert White who played cricket for the Army in 1938.
In June 1988 Austin was celebrated on a 75c Barbadian stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.
Harold Austin made his debut in important matches aged just 17 playing for Barbados against Slade Lucas's team in the 1894-95 season. He later played against both Arthur Priestley's side and Lord Hawke's team that both toured in 1896-97 and was also selected for the combined West Indies team against Priestley's XI scoring an impressive 75*, the highest score by either side, enabling the home side to win by 3 wickets. He scored an impressive 129 for Barbados against Trinidad in the 1897-98 Inter-Colonial Tournament.
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