Leonard Slater

Who was Leonard Slater?

Leonard Slater was an English cricketer and British Army officer. He was born in Instow, Devon, the son of Rev. Francis Slater and Mrs. Harriet Slater.

Slater spent some part of this life in the British Raj, where he played cricket for Peshawar and Northern Punjab, at a time when neither team had first-class status. He played for both teams in the 1902/03 season. Returning to England, he played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Devon against Glamorgan.

Five years later, he played his only first-class match when he represented the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings. In his only first-class match he scored 15 runs. In the Gentlemen's first-innings he scored 15 runs before being bowled by Albert Relf. In their second-innings he was dismissed for a duck by George Dennett. This left him with a first-class batting average of 7.50.

In 1909, Slater's wife, Constance Durnford-Slater, gave birth to a son, John Durnford-Slater.