{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Leonard Micklem | birth_date = 12 March 1845 | birth_place = Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1919|7|7|1845|3|12|df=yes}} | death_place = Elstree, Hertfordshire, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = | club1 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year1 = 1869 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 9 | bat avg1 = 9.00 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 9 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 31 October | year = 2021 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17548.html Cricinfo }}
'''Leonard Micklem''' (12 March 1845 — 7 July 1919) was an English first-class cricketer and railway secretary.
==Life== The son of Nathaniel Micklem, he was born in March 1845 at Henley-on-Thames. The Micklem's were an old Nonconformist family. He was educated at Eton College,<ref>{{cite book |title=Eton College Register 1862–1868 |date=1903 |publisher=Spottiswoode & Co. |location=Eton |page=38 |url=https://archive.org/details/b2900603x_0003 |language=en}}</ref> before going up to Merton College, Oxford.<ref>{{alox2|title=Micklem, Leonard}}</ref> He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University Cricket Club at Oxford in 1869.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31435/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Leonard Micklem|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2021-10-31|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 9 runs in the MCC first innings by Bernard Pauncefote.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1576.html|title=Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1869|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2021-10-31|url-access=subscription}}</ref> As a cricketer he was described by ''Wisden'' while playing school cricket for Eton as "a good and sure bat, playing in splendid form; a great punisher of loose bowling; a brilliant field at long-leg, a fine thrower and safe catch."<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228165.html|title=Wisden - Other deaths in 1919|date=2 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=2021-10-31}}</ref> Micklem was a prominent figure in the Brazilian railway industry, being elected secretary to the Bahia and San Francisco Railway Company in March 1880.<ref>{{cite book |title=Herapath's Railway Journal |date=1880 |volume=42 |pages=375–6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNssAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He died at Elstree in July 1919.<ref name="OBIT"/>
==Family== From his first marriage to Dora Emily Weguelin, Micklem had as son the clergyman Philip Micklem,. Another son, from his second marriage to Nanette Fenwick, was Robert Micklem, a Commander in the Royal Navy.
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=17548}}
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