Charles Lister (7 November 1811 – 18 August 1873) was an English dandy and civil servant, who encountered money troubles from around age 30. He was later
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er in Australia.
Life
He was the youngest son of Thomas Lister of
Armitage Park
Armitage Park (which has reverted to an earlier name of Hawkesyard Hall) is a 19th-century Grade II listed country house at Armitage near Rugeley, Staffordshire.
History
The land at Armitage was purchased by Nathaniel Lister, (poet and author ...
in Staffordshire, England, and his second wife Mary Grove, daughter of
William Grove (1702–1767) William Grove may refer to:
* William Grove (16th-century MP), MP for Shaftesbury
* William Barry Grove (1764–1818), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
* William Bywater Grove (1848–1938), English botanist and microbiologist
* William Chaffin ...
MP;
Thomas Henry Lister
Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and biographer, and served as Registrar General in the British civil service. He was an early exponent of the silver fork novel as a genre and also presaged "futuristic" writing ...
was an older half-brother. He was educated at
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.
Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, it was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the ...
from 1825 to 1830.
Lister matriculated at
Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...
in 1831. His niece Adelaide Lister Drummond described him in his Oxford days:
"... indeed, a very attractive person at this time. He was dressed in the extreme of fashion—yellow nankeen waistcoat and continuations, a coat of aggressive spring green, very short in the waist;— in short, a finished dandy of that day, when D'Orsay flourished and Beau Brummel was not forgotten.
Lister married in 1834 Mary Stephens, daughter of William Stephens, and they had four daughters.
His sister Adelaide married firstly
Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale
Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (23 January 1790 – 10 December 1832) was an English Peer of the Realm.
Lister was the son of Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale, and Rebecca Feilding. He attended Westminster School from 1800 to 1804 a ...
(died 1832); and then, secondly, in 1835,
Lord John Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and a ...
, who that year became
Home Secretary
The secretary of state for the Home Department, otherwise known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The home secretary leads the Home Office, and is responsible for all national ...
. Russell in 1836 gave Lister a clerkship in the Home Department, where in 1840 he worked in the Secretary of State's Office. In 1841 Lister, then of
Fyfield, was declared an insolvent debtor, having lived in a number of residences, including
Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
in 1839–1840.
In a court case of 1855, it was mentioned in evidence from Richard Gosling of the bank Gosling & Sharp that Charles Lister, who had been "unfortunate", brought cheques from
Edward Hartopp Cradock
The Rev. Edward Hartopp Craddock, D.D. (29 November 1810 – 27 January 1886) was an Oxford college head in the 19th century.
Craddock was born in Shenstone, Staffordshire and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating 1827, and gradu ...
to the bank, up to some five years earlier. Cradock was the husband of
Harriet Cradock
Lady Harriet Grove Cradock (née Lister; 1809 in Staffordshire – 1884 in Oxford) was an English writer, best remembered for her novels ''Anne Grey'' (1834), ''Hulse House'' (1860), ''John Smith'' (1878), and ''Rose'' (1881). Her first novel wa ...
, third child of Thomas Lister and Mary Grove.
Lister died at
Laverstock
Laverstock is a village and civil parish on the north-east and east outskirts of Salisbury in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. The parish is shaped like a figure 7 and incorporates Ford hamlet, the eastern half of the former manor of ...
, Wiltshire on 18 August 1873.
Cricket
Lister played two
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
matches for
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
, in 1851–2.
See also
*
List of Victoria first-class cricketers
This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston.
Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ...
References
1811 births
1873 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Cricketers from Staffordshire
Melbourne Cricket Club cricketers
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