Frank Devenish Meares (25 April 1873 – 4 July 1952), also Frank Devenish-Meares (hyphenated), was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and Australian rules football at high levels. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Meares was the son of William Meares, who had previously played two first-class matches for Otago. He emigrated to Western Australia sometime in the late 1890s, and took up playing with East Fremantle in the Perth district cricket competition, leading the club's batting averages during the 1897–98 season. When the club was reformed the following season under the electorate system (recruitment limited to specific localities), Meares was made one of the club's inaugural delegates to the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA). H