Background
Kalaugher was born in Winchester, New Zealand and he grew up in Devonport.
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Wilfrid Kalaugher
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Education
He attended Victoria University of Wellington, where he studied mathematics and competed in athletics, cricket, and rugby.
Career
He was a school master in Marlborough College, England. He was dux of Sacred Heart College, Auckland in 1921, where there is now a wing named after him. In 1926, he was selected as a Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College, Oxford, where he represented Oxford University in first-class cricket from 1928 to 1931.
At the same time he played Minor Counties Championship cricket for Oxfordshire.
While at Oxford University, he gained an Oxford Blue after winning a hurdles title. He represented New Zealand at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, competing in the triple jump and 110 m hurdles.
In 1931, he took up a teaching position at Marlborough College, England, and found his career "amid the playing fields and schools of England". He died in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
