Alexander Cracroft Wilson
New Zealand cricketer (1840-1911)
Alexander Cracroft Wilson (5 March 1840 – 5 January 1911) was a New Zealand banker, businessman, college administrator, and cricketer. He played in one first-class cricket match for Canterbury during the 1877–78 season.
Born at Cawnpore in British India in 1840, Wilson was the second youngest son of John Cracroft Wilson and his wife Elizabeth (née Wall). After being educated in England, in 1859 he moved to join his father, now remarried, at his Cashmere estate in New Zealand, travelling on the Cresswell.
In New Zealand, Wilson initially worked at the Bank of New Zealand when it opened at Christchurch in 1862. He managed the bank's branch at Lyttelton before retiring in 1871 and moving briefly to Auckland where he met his future wife Laura Munro, the daughter of a Native Land Court judge; the couple married in 1877. Later in the decade he went in to business at Christchurch, founding the merchant company Sawtell and Wilson with Henry Sawtell. He was a trustee of a building and investment company, secretary of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, on the board of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and was the Italian consul in Christchurch.
Wilson's only first-class cricket match was a December 1877 fixture against Auckland. Opening the batting, he scored 16 runs in Canterbury's first innings before being dismissed for two runs in their second.
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