Charles Lister (7 November 1811 – 18 August 1873) was an English dandy and civil servant, who encountered money troubles from around age 30. He was later cricketer in Australia.
Personal information | |
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Born | Armitage Park, Staffordshire, England | 7 November 1811
Died | 18 August 1873 Laverstock Asylum, Wiltshire, England | (aged 61)
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1851-1852 | Victoria |
Source: Cricinfo, 15 January 2015 |
He was the youngest son of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park in Staffordshire, England, and his second wife Mary Grove, daughter of William Grove (1702–1767) MP;[1][2] Thomas Henry Lister was an older half-brother.[3] He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1825 to 1830.[4]
Lister matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1831.[5] His niece Adelaide Lister Drummond described him in his Oxford days:
"... indeed, a very attractive person at this time. He was dressed in the extreme of fashion—yellow nankeen waistcoat and continuations, a coat of aggressive spring green, very short in the waist;— in short, a finished dandy of that day, when D'Orsay flourished and Beau Brummel was not forgotten.[6]
Lister married in 1834 Mary Stephens, daughter of William Stephens, and they had four daughters.[2] His sister Adelaide married firstly Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (died 1832); and then, secondly, in 1835, Lord John Russell, who that year became Home Secretary.[7] Russell in 1836 gave Lister a clerkship in the Home Department, where in 1840 he worked in the Secretary of State's Office.[8][9] In 1841 Lister, then of Fyfield, was declared an insolvent debtor, having lived in a number of residences, including Boulogne in 1839–1840.[10]
In a court case of 1855, it was mentioned in evidence from Richard Gosling of the bank Gosling & Sharp that Charles Lister, who had been "unfortunate", brought cheques from Edward Hartopp Cradock to the bank, up to some five years earlier.[11] Cradock was the husband of Harriet Cradock, third child of Thomas Lister and Mary Grove.[12]
Lister died at Laverstock, Wiltshire on 18 August 1873.[1]
Lister played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria, in 1851–2.[13]