Hugh MacNeil
{{Short description|New Zealand cricketer (1860–1924)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Hugh MacNeil
| image = MacNeil and Maconochie.jpg
| caption = Hugh MacNeil (left) and the Rev. W. Maconochie, Sydney golf champions, 1898
| country =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1860|10|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1924|9|14|1860|10|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Townsville, Australia
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = Otago
| year1 = {{nowrap|1877/78–1893/94}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 8
| runs1 = 167
| bat avg1 = 10.43
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 58
| deliveries1 = 717
| wickets1 = 17
| bowl avg1 = 13.53
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/25
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–
| date = 15 January
| year = 2018
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37791.html ESPNcricinfo
}}
Hugh MacNeil (26 October 1860 – 14 September 1924) was a New Zealand cricketer, golfer and businessman.
Life and business career
Hugh MacNeil was born at Glasgow in 1860, his parents' second son. The family migrated to Dunedin in New Zealand in 1865. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Christ's College, Christchurch.{{cite news | work=Otago Daily Times | date=17 September 1924 | page=8 | title= Mr Hugh MacNeil| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19240917.2.100| issue=19279|access-date=15 January 2018}}McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 87. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
His father, also Hugh MacNeil, founded the retail company Briscoe and Co. Young Hugh spent his working career with the company, eventually becoming the governing director for Australia and New Zealand. He married Ellie Rutherford in Sydney in November 1884.{{cite magazine |title=Marriages |magazine=The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser |date=29 November 1884 |page=1124 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163270424}}
Cricket career
MacNeil played eight first-class matches for Otago between the 1877–78 and 1893–94 seasons.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37791.html |title=Hugh MacNeil |access-date=15 May 2016 |work=ESPNCricinfo}} He made his highest score in the match against Canterbury in 1882–83, when he top-scored in each innings for Otago with 58 and 24, as well as taking four wickets. Otago nevertheless lost by four runs.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2665.html| title = Canterbury v Otago 1882-83| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date=15 January 2018}} He took his best first-class bowling figures of 6 for 25 to dismiss the visiting Tasmanians for 40 in 1883–84 and set up Otago's victory.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2778.html| title = Otago v Tasmanians 1883-84| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date=15 January 2018}}
MacNeil achieved his greatest performances in two non-first-class matches against touring Australian teams, when Otago fielded 22 players against the Australians' 11. Against the 1877–78 Australians, when he was 17 years old, he made the highest score on either side with 28 in a low-scoring draw.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/130/130929.html| title = Otago v Australians 1877-78| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date= 15 January 2018}} He repeated the feat in 1880-81, this time with 44 in the second innings, and also took 5 for 28 with the ball in the Australians' first innings. This time the Australians won, by 44 runs.{{cite web|title=Otago v Australians 1880-81|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/131/131960.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=15 January 2018}} For making the highest score in the match he received a trophy valued at ten guineas.{{cite journal|title=The Australians in New Zealand|journal=Star|date=25 January 1881|issue=3983|page= 3|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18810125.2.16|access-date=15 January 2018}}
Golf career
MacNeil won the New Zealand Amateur golf championship in 1894 and was runner-up in 1896 and 1900.{{cite web|title=New Zealand Amateur Champions|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/golf-mens/page-11|website=Te Ara|access-date=15 January 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18960926.2.54 |title=The New Zealand championship golf tournament |newspaper=Otago Daily Times |issue=10607 |date=26 September 1896 |access-date=1 November 2020 |page=5 |via=Papers Past}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19000519.2.54.7 |title=Golf |newspaper=New Zealand Herald |volume=XXXVII |issue=11376 |date=19 May 1900 |access-date=1 November 2020 |page=7 |via=Papers Past}} After moving to Australia he won the New South Wales Amateur Championship in 1898 and 1899. In 1902 he won the Australian Amateur championship.{{cite news | work=Referee | date=17 September 1924 | page=13 | title= Death of Mr Hugh MacNeil| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136622125| access-date=15 January 2018}} The 1902 Victorian Amateur Championship was played concurrently with the Australian Amateur, so that he also became the Victorian Amateur Champion.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14498546 |title=Amateur championships of Australia |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=20142 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 September 1902 |access-date=21 January 2021 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} He represented New South Wales in the Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches in 1904, 1905 and 1908.{{cite web |url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/3urhge2ecl20/4VY9lGkmI2RDJcNOH40Nws/f02282a90e22cfb98de4b903d2b961fa/Australian_Men_s_Interstate_Full_Results_1_.pdf |title=Full Results – Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches |publisher=Golf Australia |access-date=25 March 2021}} He was a life member of Royal Sydney Golf Club.{{cite news | work=Sydney Morning Herald | date=16 September 1924 | page=8 | title= Death of Mr Hugh MacNeil| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16176064| access-date=15 January 2018}}
Death
After suffering from bronchial ailments for some time, MacNeil took a trip to Queensland in the hope the climate would help him recuperate, but he died in Townsville at the age of 63. He had been retired for several years.
References
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External links
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