{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Leo Prime | image = | country = | fullname = Frederick Leopold Prime | birth_date = {{birth date|1884|11|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|1923|5|21|1884|11|19|df=yes}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | batting = | bowling = | role =

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'''Frederick Leopold Prime''' (19 November 1884 &ndash; 21 May 1923) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Auckland in 1907/08.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38222.html |title=Leopold Prime |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref><ref name="CA">{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22697/22697.html |title=Leopold Prime |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref>

In Auckland cricket Leo Prime was regarded as "a brilliant field and a solid and forceful batsman", as well as a useful bowler and wicket-keeper.<ref name=ASobit/> On his first-class debut he was a member of the Auckland team that won the first-ever challenge match for the Plunket Shield when they beat Canterbury in December 1907.<ref name=ASobit/><ref>{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Auckland 1907-08 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7481.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=20 September 2020}}</ref>

Prime married Doris Gittos in Auckland in November 1912.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Social Sphere |journal=Observer |date=16 November 1912 |page=8 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19121116.2.11}}</ref> He ran a furniture shop in Karangahape Road, Auckland.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Borough Administration |journal=Wanganui Herald |date=19 April 1915 |page=8 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19150419.2.96.1}}</ref> He was a talented cellist who often appeared in amateur performances in Auckland.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Entertainments |journal=Northern Advocate |date=16 October 1918 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19181016.2.38}}</ref><ref name=ASobit>{{cite journal |title=Cricket |journal=Auckland Star |date=29 May 1923 |page=11 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19230529.2.117.6}}</ref>

Prime died at his home in the Auckland suburb of Devonport in May 1923 after a short illness, aged 38.<ref name=ASobit/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Deaths |journal=New Zealand Herald |date=22 May 1923 |page=1 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19230522.2.2.4}}</ref>

==See also== * List of Auckland representative cricketers

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