David Rhodes

David Kirk Rhodes (20 June 1847 – 22 December 1937) was an English-born cricketer who played in New Zealand for Otago during the 1874–75 season.

Rhodes was born at Huddersfield in Yorkshire in 1847, the second son of John Turner, a woollen manufacturer in the town. He was educated at Huddersfield College and worked for his father before emigrating to Dunedin in New Zealand in 1872 where he established a wool merchants business.

Rhodes played club cricket for Dunedin Cricket Club, where he was the Secretary for some time. He made a single first-class cricket appearance, playing for Otago against Canterbury in a January 1875 match at the Hagley Oval. He recorded a duck in his first innings and scored one not out in his second. As well as cricket, Rhodes had an "excellent reputation" as a hurdle racer who was an experienced athlete. He also played representative rugby union for Otago.

In 1875 Rhodes joined the New Zealand Railways Department and worked as a stationmaster, a post which also involved acting as the postmaster. He had also been in partnership with his brother as an importer of woollen goods; the partnership was dissolved in 1885. He was married and had seven children when, in 1887, he was charged with embezzling a sum of around £130 from the post office accounts. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison.

In 1891 Rhodes joined the Tasmanian Government Railways where he was appointed as a stationmaster after a few months. He died at Caulfield in Victoria in 1937. He was aged 90.