Henry Wilson Cairns (11 December 1842 – 16 December 1888) was a New Zealand

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. He played four first-class matches for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

between the 1864–65 and 1869–70 seasons, all against

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. He had played for an Otago side of 22 players in February 1864 against a touring English side organised by George Parr but had not played in the inaugural first-class match in New Zealand earlier in the year.Henry Cairns
CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 May 2023. Cairns was born at

Falkirk Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a ...

in Scotland in 1842. He worked as a salesman. His younger brother, Alexander Cairns, was also born in Scotland but educated at Otago Boys' High School in

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. Cairns died in 1888 at Dunedin asylum.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 29. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.

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* 1842 births 1888 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Sportspeople from Falkirk {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1840s-stub