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| Full name | Duncan Elphinstone Cooper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | c. 1813 India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 November 1904 Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1850/51 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only First-class | 11 February 1851 Victoria v Tasmania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 7 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duncan Elphinstone Cooper (c. 1813 – 22 November 1904) was an Indian-born Australian cricketer who played for Victoria. He was born in Bengal, India and died in Paddington.
He was the son of Major General George Cooper (1777–1847) and his first wife Jane née Munn (1778–1823).
In 1841 Cooper travelled from London to Australia with George and Harry Thompson, brothers who were to become his partners as squatters and sheep farmers near Fiery Creek, Raglan. In his spare time Duncan painted landscapes of the surrounding area which were later gathered together and published as The Challicum Sketch Book. In 1849 he occupied the Warrapinjoe run, adjacent to the Thomson brothers' run, with an extent of 14,052 acres.
Cooper made a single first-class appearance for the Victorian cricket team, during the 1850–51 season, against Tasmania. This match was the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Cooper opened the batting, and thus faced the first ball in Australian first-class cricket. He scored four runs in the first innings, and a duck in the second.
In 1854 Cooper left Australia and returned to London. In 1875 he presented 26 volumes of the work of the Bewick brothers to the Melbourne Public Library. He lived in London, a bachelor, until his death at the age of 90.
References
- ^ Brown, Philip L (1987). The Challicum Sketch Book 1842-53 (PDF). Canberra, Australia: National Library of Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10410-6.
- "Claims to Leases of Crown Lands". The Melbourne Daily News: 4. 19 February 1849.
- "Launceston, Feb 11 - Feb 12 1851, Australian Domestic Season". Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- "Tuesday, November 16, 1875". The Argus: 4. 16 November 1875.
External links
- "Cooper, Duncan (1813-1904)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- Duncan Cooper at Cricket Archive
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