Iain Gallaway
Iain Watson Gallaway QSO MBE (born 26 December 1922) is a former commentator on the New Zealand radio station Radio Sport, and a former first-class cricketer and lawyer.
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Full name | Iain Watson Gallaway | ||||||||||||||
Born | Dunedin, New Zealand | 26 December 1922||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1946–1948 | Otago | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 31 January 2011 |
Life and career
Gallaway was born in Dunedin and attended Christ's College, Christchurch.[1] He served in the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II, patrolling the Atlantic and the North Sea on a D-class cruiser.[2][1]
He played three first-class cricket matches for Otago between 1946 and 1948 as a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.[3] In his first match against Wellington he took six catches.
After World War II he studied law at the University of New Zealand in Dunedin[4] and worked as a lawyer in the Dunedin firm that is now Gallaway Cook Allan.[5]
In a radio commentary career that extended from 1953 to 1992, he broadcast about 500 rugby matches and numerous cricket matches, mostly from the Carisbrook ground in Dunedin.[6][7] Gallaway is now official patron of the Otago Cricket Association.
Gallaway was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to rugby and cricket in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours.[8] In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gallaway was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[9] He was awarded life membership of New Zealand Cricket in 2010.[10] He received a Halberg Award for services to sport in 1999.[2]
His book Not a Cloud in the Sky: The Autobiography of Iain Gallaway came out in 1997.[11] Gallaway's son Garth is a cricket commentator on Radio Sport and a lawyer in Christchurch.[12]
References
- "Rugby and Cricket: New Zealanders in England". Otago Daily Times: 2. 8 June 1944.
- "My Life at war". Critic. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- "Iain Gallaway". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- "Successful students in law examinations". Gisborne Herald: 4. 18 April 1949.
- "Sports law". Gallaway Cook Allan. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- Sports broadcasting: Gallaway to be honoured Retrieved 30 May 2013
- Edwards, Brent (22 July 2011). "Greatest moments in Otago sport - Number 100". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- London Gazette (supplement), No. 47551, 3 June 1978. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- London Gazette (supplement), No. 50553, 13 June 1986. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- "Cricket: Gallaway made life member". Otago Daily Times. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- "Not a Cloud in the Sky: The Autobiography of Iain Gallaway". Google Books. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- "Garth Gallaway". The Arts Foundation. Retrieved 21 December 2019.