Anton Syrée

Anton Hugh Syrée (21 October 1859 – 9 January 1924) was a South African-born English doctor who played on first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1879.

Syrée was born at Port Corrie in Cape Colony in 1859.[1] He made his only known senior cricket appearance against Nottinghamshire at Canterbury in June 1879.[2]

Syrée was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, living for a period at Northallerton in Yorkshire where his wife died in 1887.[3] He died at Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire in January 1924 aged 64,[1] having committed suicide by administering an overdose of strychnine.[4]

References
  1. Anton Syrée, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  2. Anton Syrée, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-02. (subscription required)
  3. Deaths, The Times, 1887-02-11, p.1.
  4. Firth, David (2011). Silence Of The Heart: Cricket Suicides. Random House. ISBN 978-1780573939.

Anton Syrée at ESPNcricinfo

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