John Mace (28 December 1828 – 30 April 1905). He was an English-born cricketer who played for Victoria and

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 ...

. Mace played twice at a level later classified as first-class cricket, one each for Victoria and Otago. John Mace was born in England, at

Bedale Bedale ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is north of Leeds, south-west of Middlesbrough and south-west of the county town of ...

in Yorkshire, in 1828. His younger brother Harry was educated at Bedale School. The brothers, along with their other brother

Christopher Mace Christopher Mace (24 December 1830 – 23 November 1907) was an English-born cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match in Australia for Victoria in the 1861–62 season and one in New Zealand for Otago during the 1863–64 season ...

, emigrated, first to the Colony of Victoria in Australia and then, in the early 1860s, to New Zealand during the Otago Gold Rush—Harry travelling first to New Zealand in 1861.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 84. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Christopher and Harry established a partnership to mine on the Arrow River in Northern

and the settlement of

Macetown Macetown is an historic gold mining settlement in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is now uninhabited but has become a tourist attraction. Access to the town is via an unsealed road that heads up the steep-sided Arrow gorge. ...

there is named after the three brothers. John later developed a business as a farmer. He died in 1905 at Te Aroha aged 76.

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* 1828 births 1905 deaths Australian cricketers Otago cricketers Victoria cricketers English cricketers People from Bedale Cricketers from North Yorkshire {{Australia-cricket-bio-1820s-stub