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​Poulett-Harris 

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1817: Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris was born in Nova Scotia Canada to a British military man.
Educated in Manchester Grammar then Cambridge.

1843: Graduated with BA with honours from Cambridge.

1844: Richard married Catherine. Six children were born. Catherine died in 1856.

1849: Ordained as a Church of England priest.

1857: Richard appointed headmaster of Hobart High School.

1858: Richard married Elizabeth. Another six children were born.

1885: Richard retires. He lived at Peppermint Bay, Woodbridge near Hobart.
 
Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris was a local cricket administrator and luminary. 
One of his sons Henry was a gifted sportsman. Represented both WA and TAS in cricket.
One of his daughters (Harriet Lily) worked as a teacher. She was also athletic.

1894: Lily founded a cricket team for women.  This was the first cricket team for women in the Australian colonies. Lily Poulett-Harris was the first captain of the first Australian women’s cricket team.
The Oyster Cove Ladies Cricket Club played on the Domain. Other clubs to follow them and play against them were Atalanta (Hobart Quakers); Heather (Hobart) and North Bruny. The following year Green Ponds; Ranelagh; Huonville.
Lily was a batsman who normally opening the batting.
They played cricket in dresses.

1897: Harriet Lily passes away at the age of 23 from tuberculosis. There is a memorial to her in All Saints church Macquarie St Hobart. She is buried in Cornelian Bay cemetery. Her father was later buried in the same grave.
An article in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph in 2016 about Lily. She was described as Australia’s first female cricket star who inspired many other women to take up sport.

1899: Richard passes away at Peppermint Bay.
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1900: Statue erected in park adjacent to the University Reserve. 

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      • Victoria Dock
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      • Early Tasmania
      • Mid Nineteenth Century
      • Late Nineteenth Century
      • 20th Century
      • Tasmania’s aborigines
      • Convicts
    • People >
      • John Lee Archer
      • William Bedford
      • Andrew Bent
      • Louis Bernacchi
      • James Blackburn
      • William Bunster
      • William Buckley
      • Thomas Bromfield
      • Luke Castray
      • William Champion
      • David Collins
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      • John Colvin
      • Charles Darwin
      • Governor Eadley
      • TT Flynn
      • John Franklin
      • Lady Jane Franklin
      • Charles Gaylor
      • Haig: Elizabeth and Andrew
      • Henry Jones
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      • James Kelly
      • Robert Knopwood
      • Lachlan Macquarie
      • Douglas Mawson
      • Charles McLachlan.
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      • Pearce: Henry and John
      • Robert Pitcairn
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      • James Clark Ross
      • Ikey Solomon
      • Phillip Smith
      • Abel Tasman
      • Mark Twain
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      • Andrew and Elizabeth Haig
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    • Dave's Walking Tour
    • The Tench Walking Tour
    • Botanical Gardens Circuit
    • ​Alfred’s feeling religious walk
    • Battery Point Sculpture Trail
    • Lachlan gets to the point
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    • healing through living
    • This website
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  • The Full Complement
    • Alan Carlton
    • Daniel Frank
    • Paul Barrington
    • Jodi Sutton
    • Jodi Sutton talks about mistakes
    • Jodi Sutton: The phone
    • Ann Heath
    • Maddie Atkins
    • Karen Wong
    • Jo-Anne Cherry
    • Jo-Anne Cherry: Retirement
    • Errol Kilov
    • Garry Owen
    • Katherine Janney
    • Jacques Cawood
    • John Chung
    • Gordon Henry
  • Songs
    • Forty Years Ago
    • Tomorrow
    • Clouds in the River
    • I Woke Up
    • Hold My Hand
    • Cornelian Bay Boathouses
    • Dance on the Deck
    • Eucalyptus Globulus