Melville Pengelly | |
Country: | New Zealand |
Fullname: | Melville Francis Pengelly |
Nickname: | Pen |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1901 |
Birth Place: | Christchurch, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
Umpire: | true |
Testsumpired: | 4 |
Umptestdebutyr: | 1946 |
Umptestlastyr: | 1952 |
Date: | 14 July |
Year: | 2013 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38234.html Cricinfo |
Melville Francis "Pen" Pengelly (17 March 1901 - 24 September 1973) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in four Test matches between 1946 and 1952.[1]
Pengelly attended Christ's College, Christchurch,[2] and played senior club cricket in Christchurch for St Albans.[3] [4] He took up umpiring in the 1930s and umpired 19 first-class matches between 1937 and 1955, most of them in Wellington.[5] He umpired the first two Test matches in New Zealand after the Second World War: in Wellington in March 1946 and in Christchurch in March 1947, as well as two other Tests in 1951 and 1952.[5]