Noel Newton Nethersole
Portrait of Nethersole as it appeared on the Jamaican $20 note from 1976 to 2000
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| Born |
2 November 1903 Kingston, Jamaica |
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| Died | 17 March 1959 (aged 55) Kingston, Jamaica |
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| Nickname | Crab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Medium pace (arm unknown) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1926–27 to 1938 | Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricket Archive, 29 August 2014
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Noel Newton "Crab" Nethersole (2 November 1903 – 17 March 1959) was a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar, cricket player and administrator, lawyer, politician, economist, and Jamaica's Minister for Finance from 1955 to 1959.
Noel Nethersole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1903, the eighth of 10 children of John Mapletoft Nethersole CBE, who was Administrator General and Trustee in Bankruptcy of Jamaica. According to Michael Manley, Noel "came from a near-white middle-class family". He was educated at Jamaica College, and was Jamaica's Rhodes Scholar for 1923, studying at Lincoln College, Oxford. He returned to Jamaica in 1926 to practise law as a solicitor.
He did not play cricket for the university team during his time at Oxford, preferring to concentrate on his studies, but he played five Minor Counties Championship matches for Oxfordshire in the 1926 season, batting in the middle order and opening the bowling. Oxfordshire finished second.
He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1926–27, opening the bowling and batting in the lower order in a match against L.H. Tennyson's XI. His first wicket was that of Percy Fender. In 1927–28 he was one of the players invited to Barbados to play a series of trial matches to help the West Indies selectors choose the team to make West Indies' first Test tour of England in 1928. His performances were moderate, and he was not chosen to tour. Later in the season he made his highest first-class score, 71, batting at number eight in Jamaica's victory over L.H. Tennyson's XI. He captained Jamaica in all eight of their first-class matches from 1931–32 to 1938, for two wins, one loss and five draws.
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