# Leonard Micklem
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{{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](/source/Henley-on-Thames), [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire), England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|7|7|1845|3|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Elstree](/source/Elstree), [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club)
| year1 = 1869
| columns = 1
| column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| 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](/source/English_people) first-class [cricket](/source/cricket)er and railway secretary.
==Life==
The son of Nathaniel Micklem, he was born in March 1845 at [Henley-on-Thames](/source/Henley-on-Thames). The Micklem's were an old [Nonconformist](/source/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)) family. He was educated at [Eton College](/source/Eton_College),[{{cite book |title=Eton College Register 1862–1868 |date=1903 |publisher=[Spottiswoode & Co.](/source/Eyre_%26_Spottiswoode) |location=Eton |page=38 |url=https://archive.org/details/b2900603x_0003 |language=en}}] before going up to [Merton College, Oxford](/source/Merton_College%2C_Oxford).[{{alox2|title=Micklem, Leonard}}] He played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) against [Oxford University Cricket Club](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) at [Oxford](/source/Magdalen_Ground) in 1869.[{{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}}] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 9 runs in the MCC first innings by [Bernard Pauncefote](/source/Bernard_Pauncefote).[{{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}}] As a cricketer he was described by ''[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 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."[{{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}}] Micklem was a prominent figure in the [Brazilian railway industry](/source/Rail_transport_in_Brazil), being elected secretary to the Bahia and San Francisco Railway Company in March 1880.[{{cite book |title=Herapath's Railway Journal |date=1880 |volume=42 |pages=375–6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNssAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}] He died at [Elstree](/source/Elstree) in July 1919.