Hastings Woolley

Hastings Talbot Woolley (6 June 1884 – 3 February 1946) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1908/09.[1]

Hastings Woolley
Personal information
Full nameHastings Talbot Woolley
Born(1884-06-06)6 June 1884
Melbourne, Australia
Died3 February 1946(1946-02-03) (aged 61)
Sydney, Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1908/09Tasmania
Source: Cricinfo, 19 January 2016

Family

He was the son of Dr. George Talbot Woolley (1856-1916), M.R.C.S. (England), who practised medicine in Castlemaine for 32 years,[2] and Elizabeth Mary Woolley, née Evans, and the cousin of the English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley.[3] He had a sister, Kathleen (1886-1967), a.k.a. "Kitty",[4][5] and a brother, Leonard Talbot Woolley (1894-1971).[6][7][8]

He moved to Tasmania in January 1904 to take up employment with Mount Lyell Co.[9] He married Alma Marie Davis (-1951)[10] in Tasmania in June 1905.[11] They had two children; George Talbot (1910-),[12] and a daughter, Dorothy (later, Mrs. Hilton Porter, of New Zealand — she and her husband, singer and actor Hilton Porter survived the torpedoing of the SS Athenia in 1939).[13]

Football

As a schoolboy, he played for the Castlemaine Grammar School's First XVIII.

Tasmania

On moving to Tasmania, he was playing top grade senior football continuously (with Launceston) until 1911 — "[Woollley] was one of the finest players in Tasmania last year" (Daily Herald, 13 April 1912).[14]

He was selected to represent Tasmania in the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival conducted in Melbourne in 1908.[15] However he could not obtain leave of absence from his employment,[16] and was forced to withdraw from the team (his place in the team was taken by Albert Pannam).[17]

South Australia

In 1912, Launceston granted him a clearance to South Australia;[18] and he played his first match, for North Adelaide, on 6 May 1912.[19]

Athlete

He was a well-performed athlete, competing at both quarter- and half-mile (440 and 880 yards).[20][21]

Cricket

Tasmania

He played for Tasmania in one inter-state match, against Victoria, in Launceston in February 1909.[22] At the close of play on the first day Tasmania were all out for 163 (Woolley was out, bowled, for 4 runs); and Victoria were none for 78 (Wooley was none for 7).[23] At the close of play on the second day Victoria was 7 for 581; Woolley's figures were 6 overs, no maidens, for 34 runs.[24] At the close of play on the third and final day Victoria had won the match by an innings and 287 runs; in its first innings Victoria scored 626 runs for 10 wickets (Woolley was not asked to bowl again), and Tasmania were all out for 176 (Woolley was out, caught, again for 4 runs).[25]

In 1909 he represented the Northern Tasmania Cricket Association in Launceston.[26]

South Australia

He played cricket for the North Adelaide Cricket Club from 1912 to 1915.[27]

Boer War

He enlisted in the 6th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, for service in South Africa, in the Second Boer War in April 1902. The war ended on 31 May 1902, while Woolley and his comrades were still en route to South Africa.[28]

Physical culture instructor

In 1911 he was appointed as an Assistant Instructor in the Tasmanian Physical Training Branch of the junior cadets.[29][30]

In 1912, he moved to South Australia;[31] and in March 1913 he was provisionally appointed as "Honorary Lieutenant H. T. Woolley", of the "Instructional Staff", of the "Physical Training" section of the "Military Forces of the Commonwealth".[32][33][34] He resigned his commission in March 1917.[35]

He often lectured on fitness matters.[36][37]

On moving his Institute of Physical Culture from Launceston to Sydney in 1917, he represented his service as follows: "Last 5½ years Commonwealth Staff Officer of Physical Training".[38]

Death

He died in Sydney on 3 February 1946, having collapsed at the bowling green in Birrell Street, Waverley, while playing lawn bowls for the City Bowling Club.[39]

See also

Footnotes
  1. "Hastings Woolley". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. Death of Dr. Woolley, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Monday, 2 October 1916), p.2; Deaths: Woolley, The Argus, (Wednesday, 4 October 1916), p.1; Obituary, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 5 October 1916), p.12.
  3. Fine Bowls Form, The (Sydeny) Sun, (Friday, 16 February 1945), p.10.
  4. Birth: Woolley, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Thursday, 21 January 1886), p.2.
  5. Castlemaine Queen Competition, The Mount Alexander Mail, (Wednesday, 26 July 1916), p.2; The Castlemaine "Queen" Competition, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 10 August 1916), p.16; Participants in the Castlemaine "Queen" Competition, held in aid of the Local Charities, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 20 July 1916), p.16.
  6. Births: Woolley, The Argus, (Thursday, 13 December 1894), p.1.
  7. Mostly About People: Determined to Enlist, The Kyneton Guardian, (Tuesday, 10 July 1917), p.2.
  8. British Attitude Hardens, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Thursday, 1 August 1940), p.13; Australian on Spy Charge: Japanese Court Suspends Sentence, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Wedenesday, 27 November 1940), p.11.
  9. Items of News, The Mount Alexander mail, (Thursday, 14 January 1904), p.2.
  10. Deaths: Woolley, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 22 January 1951), p.14.
  11. Miscellaneous, The Zeehan and Dundas Herald, (Thursday, 15 June 1905), p.4.
  12. Births: Woolley, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Monday, 11 July 1910), p1.
  13. Italian Red Cross, The (Sydney) Sun, (Sunday, 29 September 1918), p.8; Sydney Couple Saved, The Newcastle Sun, (Thursday, 7 September 1939), p.9; Return Thanks, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 26 February 1946), p.14; Smith, Margaret, "An actress who went to sea", The (Sydney) Sun-Herald, Sunday, 6 November 1977, p.157.
  14. Football Season, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Saturday, 13 April 1912), p.11.
  15. Football, The Mercury, (Monday, 27 July 1908), p7.
  16. The State Team, The (Launceston) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 11 August 1908), p.7.
  17. The Carnival Jubilee, The Mercury, (Wednesday, 12 August 1908), p.8).
  18. Football, The (Launceston) Daily Telegraph, (Friday, 10 May 1912), p.7.
  19. Teams for Today, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 6 May 1912), p.13.
  20. Gormanston Notes, The Zeehan and Dundas Herald, (Wednesday, 26 April 1905), p.4.
  21. Thumbnails: Believes in Health, The (Sydney) Truth, (Sunday, 15 April 1928), p.12.
  22. Victoria v. Tasmania, The (Launceston) Daily Telegraph, (Friday, 19 February 1909), p.3.
  23. Interstate Cricket, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Saturday, 20 February 1909), p.9.
  24. Inter-State Cricket, The (Launceston) Daily Telegraph, (Monday, 22 February 1909), p.6.
  25. Inter-State Cricket, The Daily (Launceston) Telegraph, (Tuesday, 23 February 1909), p.6.
  26. Cricket, The Mercury, (Wednesday, 24 March 1909), p.6.
  27. Cricket,The (Adelaide) Express and Telegraph, (Thursday, 14 November 1912), p.6; Cricket, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Monday, 2 March 1914), p.7; The Averages, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Saturday, 3 April 1915), p.19.
  28. Commonwealth Contingent, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Tuesday, 6 May 1902), p.2; Castlemaine Soldiers, 'The Bendigo Advertiser, (Tuesday, 12 August 1902), p.2.
  29. Military Appointments, The Kalgoorlie Miner, (Monday, 17 July, 1911), p.2; About People, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Wednesday, 30 August 19111), p.5.
  30. The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.61, (Thursday, 26 June 1915), p.1218.
  31. School of Instruction in Junior Cadet Training Jubilee Oval, November 16th to December 10th, 1914, The (Adelaide) Critic, (Wednesday, 2 December 1914), p.11.
  32. The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.19, (Thursday, 20 March 1913), p.715.
  33. South Australian Officers; The Half-Yearly Examinations: Successful Candidates, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Wednesday, 14 May 1913), p.14.
  34. The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.52, (Saturday, 19 July 1913), p.1729.
  35. The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.66, (Thursday, 3 May 1917), p.982.
  36. Raising the Standard of the Race, The Barrier Miner, (Tuesday, 26 November 1912), p.4.
  37. Physical Training of the Australian Military Forces: Lecture at Forbes, by Lieut. H. T. Woolley, P.T.I. Staff, The Forbes Advocate, (Tuesday, 17 August 1915), p.2.
  38. The (Sydney) Sun, (Sunday, 5 August 1917), p.11.
  39. Deaths: Woolley, The Argus, (Wednesday, 6 February 1946), p.15; Two Losses, The (Sydney) Sun, *Tuesday, 12 February 1946), p.14.

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