Gerald Leatham
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Gerald Arthur Buxton Leatham was a first class cricketer who played 12 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1874 and 1886. He played 32 matches in all, including games for Marylebone Cricket Club from 1876 to 1882 and for Gentlemen of England (1874-1886), Gentlemen of the North (1879-1880), the Gentlemen (1882), an England XI (1881-1882), CI Thornton's England XI (1883), Rest of England (1883), CI Thornton's XI (1884) and AJ Webbe's XI (1887).
A specialist wicket keeper, he took 47 catches and completed 20 stumpings in all. A right handed tail order batsman, he score 172 runs at 5.21 with a top score of 20. He bowled one over, a maiden, without success. His cousin, Albert Leatham, played 53 matches for Gloucestershire CCC, MCC and others and his nephew, Hugh Leatham, 1 match for an invitation XI in 1914.
The son of W.H.Leatham, M.P. he was born on April 30, 1851 at Hemsworth Hall, Pontefract and educated at Uppingham School. He worked in a family banking business which was later absorbed by Barclays. He was also a good golfer and involved in the Bramham Moor Hunt. He died on June 19, 1932 in Dinas, Padstow, Cornwall.
