Anton Syrée
South African-born English cricketer and doctor
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Anton Hugh Syrée (21 October 1859 – 9 January 1924) was a Cape Colony-born British medical doctor who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1879.[1]
Syrée was born at Port Corrie in Cape Colony in 1859.[2] He made his only known senior cricket appearance against Nottinghamshire at Canterbury in June 1879.[3]
Syrée was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, living for a period at Northallerton in Yorkshire where his wife died in 1887.[4] He died at Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire in January 1924 aged 64,[2] having committed suicide by administering an overdose of strychnine.[5]