Harry Heath

Henry Francis Trafford "Harry" Heath (19 December 1885 – 9 July 1967) was an Australian cricketer and clergyman.

Born in Kadina, South Australia, Heath appeared in three first-class matches for the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI and South Australia between 1919 and 1924 as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm slow-medium pace. His best performance was 5 for 43 in a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales in December 1923. A late inclusion in the South Australian side, he bowled through the first innings unchanged to dismiss New South Wales for 98; all five of his victims were Test batsmen.[1][2] At the time he was the Methodist minister at the inner Adelaide suburb of Rose Park.[3]

Heath served as a Methodist chaplain to the Australian armed forces in World War I.[4] He married Irene Whellas Bain at the United Free Church of Scotland in Aberdeen on 12 September 1919.[5] They returned to South Australia in 1920, but a few years later they moved to Scotland, where he became a minister in the United Free Church in Edinburgh in 1926.[6] He died in Edinburgh on 9 July 1967.[1]

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