{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = James Testro | image = | country = | fullname = James Charles Testro | birth_date = {{birth date|1851|8|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lambeth, Surrey, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1934|4|30|1851|8|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Princes Hill, Melbourne, Australia | nickname = | batting = | bowling = | role =

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| date = 25 June 2016 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38650.html Cricinfo }} '''James Charles Testro''' (6 August 1851 &ndash; 30 April 1934) was a New Zealand cricketer who played nine first-class matches for the Auckland in the 1880s.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22974/22974.html |title=James Testro |accessdate=25 June 2016 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref>

Testro moved to Australia and with H. Dondey formed a coppersmithing and metal-working company, Dondey & Testro, in South Melbourne in 1891.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Dondey and Testro |journal=Punch |date=2 February 1905 |page=11 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175407868}}</ref> They invented several water purification devices<ref>{{cite journal |title=Patent Water Condenser |journal=The Age |date=2 November 1893 |page=7 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197192123}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Success in London |journal=The Herald |date=16 September 1915 |page=8 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242405928}}</ref> and a method of fumigating wine casks.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Orchard and Vineyard Notes |journal=Adelaide Observer |date=9 March 1895 |page=4 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161817978}}</ref>

Testro died at his home in the Melbourne suburb of Princes Hill in April 1934, aged 82. He left a wife and two adult children.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Deaths |journal=The Age |date=1 May 1934 |page=1 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204813097}}</ref>

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