Anton Syrée Explained

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, having committed suicide by administering an overdose of strychnine.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 514. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/21167.html Anton Syrée
  3. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33165/33165.html Anton Syrée
  4. Deaths, The Times, 1887-02-11, p. 1.
  5. Book: Silence of the Heart: Cricket Suicides . Firth . David . 2011 . Random House . 978-1780573939 . en.