| Wilfred Findlay | |
| Fullname: | John Wilfred Findlay |
| Birth Date: | 27 November 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Mount Kisco, New York, United States of America |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast |
| Club1: | Wellington |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 4 |
| Runs1: | 51 |
| Bat Avg1: | 8.50 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 22 |
| Deliveries1: | 434 |
| Wickets1: | 13 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 15.30 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/42 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 4/– |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37041.html Cricinfo |
| Date: | 23 November |
| Year: | 2018 |
John Wilfred Findlay (27 November 1891 – 1 June 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer, soldier and businessman.
Wilfred Findlay was the eldest of three sons of John Findlay, a New Zealand KC and politician who became a Cabinet minister and was knighted in 1911.[1] The second son, James Lloyd Findlay, was an officer who served in both world wars,[2] and the third son, Ian Calcutt Findlay, died on active service in the First World War.[3]
Findlay attended Wellington College, Wellington, where he played in the cricket team. He showed promise in Wellington senior cricket as a fast bowler of genuine pace.[4] He made his first-class debut shortly after he turned 19, and played four matches for Wellington between December 1910 and December 1911, taking 13 wickets at the low average of 15.30 and at a high strike-rate of a wicket every 33 deliveries.[5]
Family and business commitments took Findlay to England in 1912.[6] [7] [8] He enlisted in the British Army shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and served throughout the war, first with the King's Royal Rifles and then with the Machine Gun Corps, ending with the rank of major.[9]
On 23 December 1919, in Loughton, Essex, he married Miss Helen Blagden Rich of New York. He was working in insurance in London at the time.[10] [11] He spent most of the rest of his life in Britain and finally the United States, where he was an executive in the insurance industry in New York.[12]