Product Code Database
Montague Francis MacLean (12 September 1870 – 14 January 1951) was an English people first-class .
The son of Sir Francis William Maclean and Mattie Sowerby, he was born at Kensington in November 1871.1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He toured British Ceylon and British India with Lord Hawke's XI in 1892–93, making his debut in first-class cricket on the tour against the Parsees at Bombay Gymkhana. He made three further first-class appearances on the tour, scoring 63 runs on the tour, with a high score of 25. In May 1893, he made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's.
MacLean married Florence Pease in July 1896, with the couple having three children. MacLean was a leading figure in the coal mining industry. He was the managing director of Broomhill Collieries from 1900–05 and served as the chairman of United Collieries from 1910–32. He was a member of both the Coal Advisory Committee and the Royal Commission on Mining Subsidence, in addition to being a justice of the peace for Herefordshire and Northumberland. He died at Ross-on-Wye in January 1951. His son, John, also played first-class cricket.
|
|
