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"thumb Maitland Brown (17 July 1843 – 8 July 1905) was an explorer, politician and pastoralist in colonial Western Australia. He is best remembered as the leader of the La Grange expedition, which searched for and recovered the bodies of three white settlers killed by Indigenous Australians, and subsequently killed a number of Indigenous people in an incident that remains controversial to this day. Early life Maitland Brown was born on 17 July 1843 at Grassdale near York, Western Australia. The son of Thomas Brown, he was educated by tutors, and in 1858 was apprenticed to his brother Kenneth at Glengarry. He was supposed to learn sheep farming, but was more interested in horse breeding. Exploration Brown was a volunteer member of the Francis Thomas Gregory's exploring expedition of 1861, which sailed to Nickol Bay, then explored first southward across the Hamersley Ranges to the Tropic of Capricorn, and later northward as far as the Oakover River. During the latter exploration the party suffered extreme danger from lack of water, and at one point Brown saved Gregory's life by riding back to the party's base camp and returning with a supply of water. The five-month expedition opened up large tracts of good pastoral land, but little with the potential to support agriculture. In 1865, Maitland Brown was again part of an expedition to the north. The year before, three explorers, Frederick Panter, James Harding and William Goldwyer, had set out from Roebuck Bay to explore the area around La Grange Bay. The Panter-Harding-Goldwyer expedition had failed to return, and it was rumoured that they had been attacked. When the Government learned of the missing men, it organised a search expedition. Maitland Brown offered his services and was appointed leader of the expedition. The La Grange expedition left Fremantle in February 1865, and on 3 April it found the missing men dead. They had been speared and clubbed to death, at least two of them in their sleep. Shortly after the discovery of the dead men, the expedition party engaged in a pitched battle with a group of Karrijarri men. Between six and twenty people were killed, with no injuries or deaths to the expedition party. Brown's journal states that the party had walked into an ambush, but most historians have interpreted the event as a punitive attack by Brown's party. Magisterial career Brown was appointed a Justice of the Peace later that year, and in 1866 was made Resident Magistrate at Greenough. During his time in the position, he became involved in a protracted dispute with the Governor, John Hampton, and the Colonial Secretary Frederick Barlee. Brown declined to obey an instruction to reverse a minor legal decision he had made, essentially on the grounds that it was inappropriate for a magistrate to reverse a decision on the instruction of the Government: "I have yet to learn that a magistrate has any right to pursue a course which in his view is in opposition to Law upon the mere instructions of the Governor"1. Hampton was angered by Brown's repeated refusal to obey him, and by the "tone and tenor" of his letters, which he thought insolent. Brown eventually resigned over the issue, but in the meantime, Hampton's appointment had ended. Acting governor John Bruce, who agreed with Brown's legal position, smoothed the matter over, and Brown withdrew his resignation. Brown was Resident Magistrate at Greenough until 1869, when he was appointed Government Resident and Resident Magistrate at Geraldton following the death of Alfred Durlacher. The following year a number of magisterial positions were reshuffled, and Brown was appointed Resident Magistrate at Bunbury. He was reluctant to take up the position, however, and took a long leave of absence. He still had not taken up the position in October 1870 when he was appointed to a nominee position on the Western Australian Legislative Council. In politics The role of nominee members of the Council was somewhat ambiguous at the time, there being some dispute over whether nominee members were obliged to vote with the government. Maitland Brown vigorously defended his right to vote according to his conscience, and did indeed vote against the government on a number of occasions. After Governor Weld dissolved the Council in 1871, new elections were held in 1872, and Brown was not nominated to the new council. Although Weld denied that he expected his nominee members to support the government, the decision not to re-nominate Brown was widely seen as a sign that the government expected its nominee members to "toe the line". In September 1874, Brown was elected unopposed to the Legislative Council's Geraldton seat, on a policy platform of opposition to responsible government. He had also nominated for the North District seat, but on his election in October 1874 chose to sit for Geraldton. On 16 February 1875, Brown married Amy Frances Howard, with whom he would have three sons and four daughters. In January 1876, Maitland Brown's brother Kenneth murdered his wife in a drunken argument. Maitland was prominent in the family's unsuccessful attempt to mount a defence of diminished responsibility, sparing neither his personal privacy nor his standing in the community in the failed attempt to save his brother from execution. Perceiving that his standing in the community had been damaged by the trial, Brown resigned his seat in the Council in March. He was persuaded to renominate, however, and was re-elected unopposed on 22 July. Brown's views changed markedly during his later years in the Legislative Council. Whereas he had earlier argued against the necessity of an "opposition", he later became himself firmly opposed to the government. He became an outspoken critic of nearly every government measure, and was especially critical of Governor Robinson. For a time he was widely recognised as the Leader of the Opposition, although on at least one occasion he repudiated the title. Brown's views on responsible government also changed. He had been one of the colony's staunchest opponents of responsible government, but by 1883 he had declared himself a supporter of the proposed change. Having been elected on a policy platform of opposition to responsible government, Brown considered it inappropriate to retain his seat after changing his opinion, so in April 1883 he resigned the seat of Geraldton for the second time. A few weeks later he was elected to the new seat of Gascoyne, which he would hold until his resignation in April 1886. Later life The Explorers' Monument On 7 April 1886, Brown resigned his seat in the Legislative Council for the last time. He then accepted a re-appointment to the position of Resident Magistrate at Geraldton. He remained in the position until his retirement from public life in 1904, nominally on grounds of ill health, but possibly due to his wife's alcoholism. Brown's wife died in early 1905, and shortly afterwards, on 8 May, Brown himself died in Perth. He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery, but in 1911 his remains were re-interred with the remains of Panter, Harding and Goldwyer in East Perth Cemeteries. In 1912, a monument to Brown was erected on the Fremantle Esplanade. Notes # Quoted in Cowan (1988). References * * Category:1843 births Category:1905 deaths Category:Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery Category:Burials at East Perth Cemeteries Category:Explorers of Western Australia Category:19th-century Australian public servants Category:Leaders of the Opposition in Western Australia Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Category:People from the Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Category:19th-century Australian politicians "
"Charles Stowell "Father" Marriott (14 September 1895 – 13 October 1966) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. Marriott played between 1919 and 1938 and was considered one of the best leg-break and googly bowlers of the time. He went on to teach, having served during World War I in the British Army. Marriott played in one Test match for the England cricket team in 1933 at the age of 37, taking 11 wickets. Early life Marriott was born at Heaton Moor near Stockport in Lancashire; his birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott".Charles Marriott, CricInfo. Retrieved 11 December 2018. His father, Joshua Marriott, was a solicitor. He was educated in Ireland, first at Monkston Park School in Dublin from 1904 to 1909 and then at The Royal School, Armagh between 1909 and 1912 before attending St Columba's College, Dublin from 1912 to 1913. He played cricket in the school XI at both Royal School and St Columba's and was a member of the St Columba's Officer Training Corps (OTC).Lewis P (2014) For Kent and Country, pp.247–253. Brighton: Reveille Press. . After leaving school Marriott enrolled at Dublin University where he was also a member of the OTC. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Military service Marriott enrolled in the Lancashire Fusiliers in September 1915 and was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 21st Reserve Battalion the following month. In March 1916 he was posted to France with the 16th Battalion and he was on the front line at Thiepval when the Battle of the Somme began and saw action during the first two days of the battle. He spent time on the front line at Ovillers and, later in the year, to the north of Arras and was promoted, first to Lieutenant and then to acting Captain, commanding a company. He was injured falling on frozen duckboards during early 1917 and spent some time convalescing in England before returning to the war, seeing action at Savy Wood, Saint-Quentin, Nieuwpoort and around Ypres during the summer. He was gassed near Nieuwpoort in July 1917 and evacuated home, spending time recovering in Dublin. Doctors determined that he was suffering from photophobia and had many of the classic signs of shell shock and that he was unfit for front line service. He spent early 1918 with the 3rd Battalion at Withernsea in Yorkshire and transferred to the Royal Air Force in July, joining the Cadet Wing at Hastings with the rank of Lieutenant for the remainder of the war. He was demobilised in April 1919. Cricket career Having played some cricket during the war, including for a side organised by FS Jackson at Lord's in 1918, Marriott made his first-class cricket debut for the Gentlemen of England against Oxford University in May 1919.Father Marriott, CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 December 2018. He went on to make his Lancashire debut later the same month. The match, against Essex at Leyton, is reported to be the first county cricket match Marriott had ever seen. He played 12 matches for Lancashire from 1919 to 1921. Marriott enrolled at Peterhouse College, Cambridge in 1919. He played for Cambridge University Cricket Club, making 17 first-class appearances for the side in his two years at Cambridge. He won blues in 1920 and 1921, meeting with "remarkable success", taking seven wickets in both of his University Matches.Charles "Father" Marriott, Obituary, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1967. Retrieved 17 December 2018. It was at Cambridge that Marriott was nicknamed "Father" on account of his relatively advanced age of 25. After Cambridge, Marriott went on to take up a post as a teacher of modern languages at Dulwich College in 1921. He took responsibility for cricket at the school between 1921 and 1926. The post allowed him to play for Kent County Cricket Club in the school holidays, although he initially declined Lord Harris' invitation to do so. He eventually accepted the opportunity and played for the Kent side between 1924 and 1937, making 101 first-class appearances for the county, taking 429 wickets. In his first season for Kent Marriott topped the county's bowling averages and was awarded his county cap. He took 10 wickets against Hampshire and 11 against Lancashire and had a "remarkable impact" on the side. He toured South Africa over the English winter of 1924/25 with SB Joel's XI, playing in eight of the 14 first-class matches during the tour and played regularly for Kent during August in each season until 1935, other than in 1930 when he played no first-class cricket. His last match for Kent came in 1937 against Sussex at Maidstone, and his final first-class match was the following year for Free Foresters against Oxford University. =International cricket= Marriott was selected in the squad for the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1921, but didn’t make the final eleven. Marriott's only Test match was in the third Test against the touring West Indies at The Oval in 1933. He was aged 37 when he was called in to the England side as a replacement for the injured Hedley Verity. He took 11 wickets during the match, 5/37 in the West Indies first innings, and 6/59 in the second, making him the fourth cricketer to take two five wicket hauls on Test debut. Wisden reported that with "clever fighting of the ball, perfect length and spin" he produced "one of the best performance accomplished by a bowler when playing for England for the first time"Third Test match, England v West Indies 1933, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1934. Retrieved 17 December 2018. and Marriott remains the bowler with the lowest bowling average to have taken more than 10 wickets in Test matches. He "bewildered" the West Indian batsmen as he "disguised his spin very well and never made the ball break too much". The following winter Marriott toured India with an official England side led by Douglas Jardine. He did not play in any of the three Test matches on the tour and Wisden reported that he "was seldom as good as in England",M. C. C. team in India, 1933-34, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1935. Retrieved 17 December 2018. although he took a hat-trick against Madras, the only time he completed the hat-trick during his career. He played nine times for MCC during the tour, taking 32 wickets, and made a further appearance for the club against the touring Australians in May 1934.Lynch S (2011) The one and only, CricInfo, 8 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2018. Playing style and legacy Marriott was one of the best leg break bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s.Mr. C. S. Marriott, The Times, 15 October 1966, p.10. He bowled with a high bowling action, swinging his arm behind his back before he delivered the ball in a style which Wisden compared to Kent's great spin bowler Colin Blythe. He bowled an "immaculate length" at slow or medium pace and was "highly disciplined" in his approach to bowling, having developed his skills through what The Times called "endless practice". He used "cunning flighting" and "the ability to turn the ball sharply" to be an effective bowler "even on good pitches" and could be "unplayable" on helpful pitches. He bowled a "fierce" top-spinner and although he was able to bowl an effective googly, he used it relatively rarely, having injured himself at school whilst bowling the delivery.Haigh G (2002) Mystery Spinner: The life ad Death of an Extraordinary Cricketer. London: Aurum Press. (Available online. Retrieved 17 December 2018.) If he did bowl the delivery it was generally during the first few overs of a spell to act as a deterrent to batsmen. He had begun to write a book, The Complete Leg-Break Bowler, when he died which was published after being completed by Ian Peebles and Richie Benaud. The 11 wickets Marriott took in his only Test match remain the best bowling figures for any player who has only played a single Test. He is the only player to have taken two five wicket hauls in their only Test and his Test bowling average of 8.72 runs per wicket is the lowest of any Test cricketer to have taken 10 or more wickets.Mukherjee A (2014) Charles "Father" Marriott: The finest "One-Test Wonder?", Cricket Country, 14 September 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2018. Marriott took a total of 711 wickets during his first-class career, 429 of them taken for Kent. He took 10 wickets in a match 10 times, eight for Kent, and five wickets in an innings 48 times.Bowling Records in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2018, pp.167–175. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club. He was a less than capable fielder and batsman and scored fewer runs, 574, than he took wickets.Miller A, Williamson M (2007) Eleven quirky debuts, CricInfo, 7 December 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2018. As a coach at Dulwich College he coached a number of future first-class players, including future Wisden Cricketers of the Year Trevor Bailey and Hugh Bartlett.Trevor Bailey, Cricketer of the Year – 1950, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1950. Retrieved 17 December 2018.Hugh Bartlett, Cricketer of the Year – 1939, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1939. Retrieved 17 December 2018. Personal and later life Marriott married Phyllis Taylor at Kensington in 1924 and taught at Dulwich College throughout his career. He retired from teaching in 1953, three years early due to ill health. As a teacher he was "well known" for a passion for literature, playing roles in school plays and he played the trombone in the school orchestra. After his retirement he gave readings from literature at schools and literary societies.Mr. C. S. Marriott, The Times, 21 October 1966, p.14. During World War II Marriott was an anti- aircraft gunner in the Home Guard and played cricket in war-time matches, including at Lord's in 1944 when he was 47. He died in a nursing home at Dollis Hill in Middlesex in 1966 aged 71. See also *One-Test wonder *List of England cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut NotesReferencesExternal links * *Scorecard of Charles Marriott's only Test match Category:1895 births Category:1966 deaths Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:England Test cricketers Category:English cricketers Category:Kent cricketers Category:Lancashire cricketers Category:Free Foresters cricketers Category:British Home Guard soldiers Category:Lancashire Fusiliers officers Category:British Army personnel of World War I Category:British Army personnel of World War II Category:People from Heaton Moor Category:Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut Category:Gentlemen cricketers Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Category:Gentlemen of England cricketers Category:People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin Category:Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Category:Schoolteachers from Greater Manchester Category:S. B. Joel's XI cricketers Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 "
"Konohanasakuya-hime or Konohananosakuya-hime (木花咲耶姫 or 木花開耶姫; lit. "[cherry] tree blossom blooming princess" (her name also appears in a shorter form as "Sakuya-hime", and she is also called Sengen)), in Japanese mythology, is the blossom-princess and symbol of delicate earthly life. She is the daughter of the mountain god Ohoyamatsumi.Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston. Book I, page 71. Tuttle Publishing. Tra edition (July 2005). First edition published 1972. She is often considered an avatar of Japanese life, especially since her symbol is the sakura (cherry blossom). Konohanasakuya-hime is also the goddess of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes. Sakuya-hime is the wife of the god Ninigi. She met him on the seashore and they fell in love; Ninigi asked Oho-Yama, the father of Sakuya-hime for her hand in marriage. Oho-Yama proposed his older daughter, Iwa-Naga-hime, instead, but Ninigi had his heart set on Sakuya-hime. Oho-Yama reluctantly agreed and Ninigi and Ko-no-hana married. Because Ninigi refused Iwa-Naga, the rock-princess, human lives are said to be short and fleeting, like the sakura blossoms, instead of enduring and long lasting, like stones. Sakuya-hime became pregnant in just one night, causing suspicion in Ninigi. He wondered if this was the child of another kami. Sakuya-hime was enraged at Ninigi's accusation and entered a doorless hut, which she then set fire to, declaring that the child would not be hurt if it were truly the offspring of Ninigi. Inside the hut, Ko-no-hana had three sons, Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori.Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, translated from the original Chinese and Japanese by William George Aston. Book II, page 73. Tuttle Publishing. Tra edition (July 2005). First edition published 1972. "According to the 'Kojiki', the great 8th century A.D. compilation of Japanese mythology, Konohana Sakuya Hime married a god who grew suspicious of her when she became pregnant shortly after their wedding. To prove her fidelity to her husband, she entered a benign bower and miraculously gave birth to a son, unscathed by the surrounding flames. The fire ceremony at Fuji-Yyoshida recalls this story as a means of protecting the town from fire and promoting easy childbirth among women." Shrines have been built on Mount Fuji for Sakuya-hime. It is believed that she will keep Mount Fuji from erupting,"In A.D. 806 a local official built a shrine near the foot of the volcano to keep it from erupting. The priests assigned the task of pacifying the mountain apparently neglected their duties because Fuji erupted with great violence in 864, causing much damage in a nearby province. The governor of that province blamed the priests for failing to perform the proper rites and constructed another shrine in his own territory, where he could make sure everything was done correctly. A fiery god of the mountain became at a later date the more peaceful Shinto goddess of Mount Fuji-- Konohana Sakuya Hime-- the Goddess of Flowering Trees." "Konohana Sakuya Hime originally had little or no connection with Mount Fuji. Sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries, the belief arose among the people of the region that she would protect them from eruptions of the volcano as she had her newborn son from the flames of the burning bower." Konohana is now the principal goddess of Mount Fuji. Members of Fuji-ko have altars in their own home in which they worship Konohana Sakuya Hime. This group also lights a torch for Konohana Sakuya Hime at the fire ceremony at Fuji-Yoshida. but shrines to her at Kirishima have been repeatedly destroyed by volcanic eruptions. She is also known for having torn up the Yatsugatake Mountains, because it was higher than Fuji-san. See also *Asama Shrine *Iwanaga-hime References Category:Japanese goddesses Category:Nature goddesses Category:Shinto kami "