Robert Malcolm Rutherford (4 October 1886 – 17 August 1960) was a New Zealand lawyer and sportsman. He played nine
first-class cricket 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 1908–09 and 1913–14 seasons
and captained the Otago
field hockey team.
Rutherford was born at
Dunedin in 1886.
[McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 116. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He studied law at the
University of Otago in the city and played both cricket and hockey for the University club. Described as a "well-known" cricketer,
[Personal items, '' Otago Witness'', issue 3513, 12 July 1921, p. 45.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 29 December 2023.) he made his senior representative debut for the representative cricket team in a December 1908
Plunket Shield match against
Auckland, making scores of 11 and 14 and taking one wicket in the match. He played twice more in top-class matches for the side during the season before making three appearances in 1909–10. His final three first-class matches came between the 1910–11 season and 1913–14. In total Rutherford scored 251 first-class runs and took 10 wickets for Otago.
[Robert Rutherford]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
He was a member of the Otago Hockey Association committee and played regularly for the province's representative side. Described as a "brilliant forward", he captained the provincial side against Southland during the 1911 season.
[Association football, '' Southland Times'', issue 16792, 22 July 1911, p. 9.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 29 December 2023.)
Rutherford qualified as a solicitor and left Dunedin in 1912 to work as the managing clerk for ER Bowler at
Gore
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in
Southland in 1912.
[ He was admitted to the bar later in the year.][Personal items, '' The Dominion'', volume 5, issue 1509, 3 August 1912, p. 4.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 29 December 2023.) By 1921 he was working at Milton
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to the south of Dunedin.[ He died at Dunedin in 1960 at the age of 73.][
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References
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1886 births
1960 deaths
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