Leslie Wellington Ashbolt (1886 - 1944)

Born 1886 in Wellington, New Zealand

Husband of Carola May (Webster) Ashbolt — married Jan 1912 in New Zealand

Died 3 Mar 1944 at about age 58 in his residence, Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Manager for Pearson's Proprietary, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (from 1909), shipping agents, brokers and timber merchants (one of the largest importers in Australia of white pine timber); formerly of Wellington, New Zealand, he was well-known in cricket circles.

Background

He was the son of Elizabeth Mary Nuttall and Alfred (Alf) Ashbolt, Printer and Manager of the New Zealand Times who also umpired 19 first-class cricket matches from 1886 to 1898. His eldest brother, Sir Alfred Henry Ashbolt (1870–1930), moved to Tasmania, where he was a prominent businessman, served as Tasmania's agent-general in London, and was Knighted. Another brother, Frank Lionel Ashbolt (1876-1940), was a New Zealand Cricketer.

Death and burial

He died on 3 March 1944 at Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Sources

A Chat With Mr Leslie Ashbolt, Papers Past, NLNZ: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100809.2.60?query=Leslie%20wellington%20ashbolt%20&page=2&snippet=true.

'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and genealogical notebooks, compiled by (his great-grandson) Cranleigh Harper Barton BEM, which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest, Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand (1975).

Wikipedia, Frank Ashbolt (brother): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ashbolt.

Birth reg 1886/274, NZBDM: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Dbirths.