Tom Lowry
Tom Lowry in 1927
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17 February 1898 Fernhill, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand |
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| Died | 20 July 1976 (aged 78) Hastings, New Zealand |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 8) | 26 January 1918 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 16 November 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 April 2017
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Thomas ("Tom") Coleman Lowry (17 February 1898 – 20 July 1976) was a New Zealand Test cricketer. He played in the first seven Test matches that New Zealand ever played, captaining the team in all of them.
Lowry's father, Thomas Henry Lowry, a graduate of Cambridge University, inherited the Lowry property, Okawa, of 20,000 acres, in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island. He married Helen ("Marsie") Watt, daughter of James Watt, "one of the richest men in New Zealand", in 1897.
Thomas Henry Lowry was a keen cricketer, who played one first-class match for Hawke's Bay and constructed a cricket ground, "The Grove", on his property, which is still in use. He helped the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association bring out leading English professionals, including Albert Trott and Jack Board, to coach local players. He also developed the Lowry property, which had been largely a sheep and cattle farm, into one of New Zealand's leading racehorse studs. His most prominent success was the mare Desert Gold, who won her first 19 races and finished with 36 wins from 59 starts.
Thomas Henry and Marsie had five children between 1898 and 1904: Tom, Jim (who won a tennis Blue at Cambridge University before returning to run part of Okawa), Ralph (Rugby union Blue at Cambridge, another Lowry farmer, and the author of the book Taihape, Be Happy, Die Happy), Gertrude (known as "Beet") (who married Tom's Cambridge University friend Percy Chapman, who captained the English Test cricket team) and Marion (who married Reg Bettington, Oxford University cricket captain and later medical specialist in New Zealand).
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