Henry Dumaresq

{{short description|Tasmanian cricketer and politician}}

{{about||his uncle, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dumaresq|Henry Dumaresq (colonial settler)||||||}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}}

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| name = Henry Dumaresq

| image = Dumaresq Roland,Henry,Gascoine HA 202.jpg

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| birth_name = Henry Rowland Gascoigne Dumaresq

| birth_date = {{birth date|1839|2|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Longford, Van Diemen's Land

| death_date = {{death date and age|1924|10|31|1839|2|20|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia

| office=Member for Longford

|term_start={{start_date|1886|7|26|df=y}}

|term_end={{end date|1903|5|12|df=y}}

|predecessor=New seat

|successor=Alfred Youl

|module = {{Infobox cricketer |embed=yes

| batting = Left-handed

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| club1 = Tasmania

| year1 = 1868

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| date = 7 January

| year = 2016

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4990.html Cricinfo

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Henry Rowland Gascoigne Dumaresq (20 February 1839 – 31 October 1924) was an Australian politician who represented the electoral district of Longford in the Tasmanian House of Assembly between 1886 and 1903. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 26 July 1886 and resigned on 12 May 1903.{{cite Tas Parliament |id=dumaresqh202 |title=Dumaresq, Henry Rowland Gascoigne |access-date=24 July 2022}}

He was the son of Edward Dumaresq (1802–1906), who had migrated to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), in 1825, around the time that his brother-in-law Ralph Darling became Governor of New South Wales. He was the nephew of Henry Dumaresq (1792–1838) and William Dumaresq (1793–1868).{{Citation|last=Page|first=Roger|title=Dumaresq, Edward (1802–1906)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dumaresq-edward-2002|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|place=Canberra|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=21 August 2021}} It is likely that he was named after his uncle, who had died in the year before Dumaresq was born.

Dumaresq also played one first-class cricket match for Tasmania in 1868, almost twenty years before he entered parliament.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4990.html |title=Henry Dumaresq |accessdate=7 January 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}