William Halton (19 January 1837 – 24 April 1885) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | William Halton | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 January 1837 Yarm, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 April 1885 (aged 48) Blackburn, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1861–1862 | Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 June 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Halton made his debut in first-class cricket for a combined Yorkshire and Durham cricket team against Nottinghamshire at Stockton-on-Tees in 1858.[1] He made two first-class appearances in 1861 for a United England Eleven against an All England Eleven.[1] In the same season he made his debut for Yorkshire against Surrey at Sheffield, as well as playing for a combined Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees cricket team against Cambridgeshire.[1] His final three first-class appearances all came for Yorkshire in 1862.[1] Playing in eight first-class matches, Halton scored 112 runs at an average of 10.18, with a high score of 19 not out.[2]
Halton kept an inn in Stockton-on-Tees in the 1860s. After his first wife died, he moved with his second wife to Blackburn, where he worked as a labourer. He died of bronchitis in April 1885.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "First-Class Matches played by William Halton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Player profile: William Halton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Mick Pope, "William Halton", The Cricket Statistician, November 2023, pp. 19–21.
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