Harry Halliday (cricketer, born 1855)
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Nelson, New Zealand
Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand
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| Full name | Henry Holden Halliday | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 March 1855 Nelson, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 July 1922 (aged 67) Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1873/74–1880/81 | Nelson | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 January 2018 | |||||||||||||||
Henry Holden Halliday (30 March 1855 – 19 July 1922) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nelson from 1874 to 1880.
Halliday was born in Nelson and educated at Nelson College.[1] On his first-class debut against Wellington in 1873–74, Harry Halliday opened the batting in the first innings for Nelson and made 35, their highest score of the match.[2] He was less successful with the bat in later matches, but he established himself as one of the best long stops in New Zealand at a time when that was an important fielding position.[3][4]
Halliday worked in the New Zealand Post and Telegraph service. He was in charge of the telegraph office at Nelson in the 1870s,[5] and was noted for his speed as a telegraphist.[6] While working in the telegraph office in Wellington in 1892, he was appointed to a senior position in the office in Hokitika.[7] He was working as a clerk in the Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce in Hokitika when he was dismissed in March 1913.[8] He died suddenly aged 67 at his home in Hokitika in July 1922, leaving a widow, a daughter and three sons.[9]