Leonard Montague Harris (21 December 1855 – 27 April 1947) was an Australian-born cricketer. He played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Otago and Wellington between the 1881–82 and 1893–94 seasons.[1]
Harris was born at Swansea in what was then still Van Diemen's Land in 1855.[2] After moving to New Zealand he played club cricket for Dunedin Cricket Club.[3] Considered a "fine left-handed" batsman[4] He played a total of 11 first-class matches, nine for Otago between 1881–82 and 1887–88 and then two for Wellington, one in each of the 1891–92 and 1893–94 seasons. He scored 348 first-class runs, playing several innings for Otago which were later described as "excellent",[5] and took a single wicket.[6]
Professionally Harris was a flax merchant,[7] working for Guthrie and Larnach in Dunedin[8] before becoming the manager of the Wellington branch of AS Patterson.[9] He was prosecuted under the bankruptcy act in 1900 but the case was dismissed,[10][11] He established his own firm in Wellington in January the following year,[12] but by November has moved to Durban in South Africa where he planned to import butter from New Zealand.[13] He travelled to England in 1930, visiting Lord's to watch a Test match[14] and by 1940 owned a set of buildings in Durban.[8] He died at Durban in 1947. He was aged 91.[6]