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Evan Denham

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Evan Denham
Born
Hono Evan Horrell Denham

(1913-05-18)18 May 1913
Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Died16 June 1991(1991-06-16) (aged 78)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Alma materCanterbury University College
OccupationSurgeon
Spouse
Bunty Robertson
(m. 1946)
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1945/46Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 1
Runs scored 2
Batting average 2.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 2
Balls bowled 66
Wickets 1
Bowling average 28.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 1/28
Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 21 December 2023
Military career
AllegianceNew Zealand
Service / branchNew Zealand Medical Corps
Years of service1941–1945
RankCaptain
Battles / warsWorld War II

Hono Evan Horrell Denham (18 May 1913 – 16 June 1991) was a New Zealand surgeon and cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Canterbury in 1945/46.[1]

Life and career

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Denham was born in Brisbane, Australia, but brought up in Christchurch, where his father, Henry George Denham, was professor of chemistry and rector of Canterbury University College.[2] He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, before studying medicine at Canterbury University College,[3] graduating MB ChB in 1937.[2] He worked and undertook further training in hospitals in New Zealand and England before being admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in May 1941.[2][4]

Denham joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Medical Corps in mid-1941 and served until 1945, becoming a captain and surgical specialist and serving in North Africa and Italy.[2][5] He returned to Christchurch after the war, working as a surgeon in Christchurch Hospital.[6] He remained there until 1978, specialising in thoracic surgery.[2] He served as chairman of the New Zealand Postgraduate Medical Federation from 1966 to 1976.[2]

A leg-spin bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Denham played one first-class match for Canterbury in the first Plunket Shield season after the war. Canterbury won, but his contribution was modest, and he was not selected again.[7] In Christchurch in 1946, he married Bunty Robertson, a Scottish nurse he had met while they were both working in Oswestry before the war. They had three daughters, all of whom became nurses, and a son, who became a farmer.[2]

Denham died in Christchurch on 16 June 1991.[1] His wife, Bunty Denham, died in 2008.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Hono Denham". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Denham, Hono Evan Horrell (1913–1991)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Varsity Eleven". Star: 14. 16 March 1931.
  4. ^ "Personal Items". Press: 6. 27 May 1941.
  5. ^ "Hono Evan Horrell Denham". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Appointment of Surgeons". Press: 3. 23 May 1946.
  7. ^ "Canterbury v Wellington 1945-46". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  8. ^ "The Press death notice list of names" (PDF). 2008. p. 35. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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