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Thomas Hart
Personal information
Full nameThomas Mure Hart
Born(1909-03-01)1 March 1909
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died16 January 2001(2001-01-16) (aged 91)
Hampshire
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleAll-rounder
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1933–1934 Scotland
1931–1932Oxford University
First-class debut20 June 1931 Oxford University v Army
Last First-class27 July 1934 Scotland v Australia
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 12
Runs scored 318
Batting average 19.87
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 57
Balls bowled 1160
Wickets 9
Bowling average 51.66
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/26
Catches/stumpings 5/0
Source: CricketArchive, 4 December 2008

Thomas Mure Hart, CMG (1 March 1909 – 16 January 2001) was a Scottish cricketer and rugby union player. He played twice for the Scotland national rugby union team and twice for the Scotland national cricket team as a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler. Hart served as the Financial Secretary to Singapore between 1954 and 1959.

Biography

Born in Glasgow in 1909, Hart was educated at Glasgow Academy, Strathallan School, Glasgow University and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1930, he played twice for Scotland in the Five Nations against Wales and Ireland at centre. Scotland beating Wales 12–9 at Murrayfield on 1 February and losing 14–11 to Ireland at Murrayfield on 22 February. In 1931 he played two games for Leicester Tigers.


Whilst attending Oxford University, Hart played for the university cricket team, playing ten first-class matches in 1931 and 1932, gaining his blue in both years. He made his debut for Scotland in 1933, playing against Ireland. He played a second match against Australia the following year. Both matches were first-class.

Hart entered the Colonial Service in 1933 and was seconded to the Colonial Office between 1933 and 1936. He joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1936. Hart played two matches for the Malaya cricket team, drawing with Sir Julien Cahn's XI in 1937 and losing to the Ceylonese cricket team in 1938. He also played three matches for the Federated Malay States against the Straits Settlements between 1937 and 1939. During the Second World War he was captured in Malaya and served as a civilian detainee.

In 1953 he was appointed Director of Commerce and Industry in Singapore and in 1954 he was appointed the Financial Secretary to Singapore.

Awards

Appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George, 1957.

See also

Further reading

  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  • Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)

References

  1. "Thomas Hart". ESPNcricinfo. 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Thomas Hart". ESPNscrum. 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  3. ^ "Thomas Hart". CricketArchive. 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Thomas Mure Hart". Who's Who (UK). 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  5. Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David (2014). Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby Development Foundation. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
  6. ^ "First-class matches played by Thomas Hart". CricketArchive. 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Thomas Mure Hart". Cricket Europe. 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Other matches played by Thomas Hart". CricketArchive. 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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