Charles Lister

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Charles Lister
Personal information
Born(1811-11-07)7 November 1811
Armitage Park, Staffordshire, England
Died18 August 1873(1873-08-18) (aged 61)
Laverstock Asylum, Wiltshire, England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1851-1852Victoria
Source: Cricinfo, 15 January 2015

Charles Lister (7 November 1811 – 18 August 1873) was an English dandy and civil servant, who encountered money troubles from around age 30. He was later cricketer in Australia.

Life

He was the youngest son of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park in Staffordshire, England, and his second wife Mary Grove, daughter of William Grove (1702–1767) MP;[1][2] Thomas Henry Lister was an older half-brother.[3] He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1825 to 1830.[4]

Lister matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1831.[5] His niece Adelaide Lister Drummond described him in his Oxford days:

"... indeed, a very attractive person at this time. He was dressed in the extreme of fashion—yellow nankeen waistcoat and continuations, a coat of aggressive spring green, very short in the waist;— in short, a finished dandy of that day, when D'Orsay flourished and Beau Brummel was not forgotten.[6]

Lister married in 1834 Mary Stephens, daughter of William Stephens, and they had four daughters.

Boulogne in 1839–1840.[10]

In a court case of 1855, it was mentioned in evidence from Richard Gosling of the bank Gosling & Sharp that Charles Lister, who had been "unfortunate", brought cheques from Edward Hartopp Cradock to the bank, up to some five years earlier.[11] Cradock was the husband of Harriet Cradock, third child of Thomas Lister and Mary Grove.[12]

Lister died at Laverstock, Wiltshire on 18 August 1873.[1]

Cricket

Lister played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria, in 1851–2.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Died". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. 22 August 1873. p. 12.
  2. ^ a b Denny, Henry Lyttelton Lyster (1913). Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster. Edinburgh: printed for the author by Ballantyne, Hanson. p. 139.
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  4. ^ Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury; Auden, John Ernest (1909). Shrewsbury School register, 1734-1908. Oswestry, Woodall. p. 55.
  5. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  6. ^ Champneys, Basil (1915). The Honourable Adelaide Drummond; retrospect and memoir (27 ed.). London Smith, Elder.
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  8. ^ The Spectator. The Spectator. 1836. p. 1154.
  9. ^ The British Imperial Calendar, on General Register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Its Colonies (etc.). Arthur Varenham. 1840. p. 144.
  10. ^ Britain, Great (1841). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 1419.
  11. ^ "Old Bailey Proceedings: CHARLES BRIDGEMAN. Deception: forgery. 7th May 1855". May 1855.
  12. ^ Denny, Henry Lyttelton Lyster (1913). Memorials of an ancient house : a history of the family of Lister or Lyster. Edinburgh: printed for the author by Ballantyne, Hanson. p. 141.
  13. ^ "Charles Lister". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 January 2015.