Tasman Drake
cricketer (1884-)
The Rev. William Tasman Drake (2 December 1884 – 15 April 1946) was an Anglican clergyman and cricketer in New Zealand.
Life and clerical career
Tasman Drake was born in Hobart, Tasmania, but his family moved to New Zealand, and he was educated at schools in Invercargill and Dunedin. He studied for the Anglican clergy at Selwyn College in Dunedin.
He married Mary Mitchell (1887–1968) in Dunedin in December 1914. They had two sons and a daughter. One of his brothers was Ernest Drake, a popular tenor and conductor in New Zealand.
Drake served the Anglican Church as curate at Dunstan in Central Otago, vicar of Maniototo in Naseby from 1915, curate at Gisborne from 1918, vicar of Puketapu in Hawke's Bay from 1921, and vicar of Port Ahuriri in Napier from 1922 to 1927. After some time off for his health, he was organising secretary of the Diocese of Waiapu from 1929 to 1931, vicar of Waipawa in Hawke's Bay from 1931 to 1938, and vicar of St Matthew's Church, Hastings, from 1938 until his death in 1946.
Cricket career
Drake's career in rural parishes in his younger days made it difficult for him to establish himself as a cricketer.
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