David North Trotter (24 May 1858 – 17 March 1912) was an Irish first-class

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er. Trotter was born at Forkhill in

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

in May 1858. He played minor matches for Ireland and Dublin University Cricket Club in the 1870s, where he had some success, scoring a century at College Park in 1876 against a United South of England Eleven featuring W. G. Grace, James Southerton and

James Lillywhite James Lillywhite (23 February 1842 – 25 October 1929) was an English Test cricketer and an umpire. He was the first ever captain of the English cricket team in a Test match, captaining two Tests against Australia in 1876–77, losing the fir ...

. Impressed by his performance, Grace invited him to play for the North of England in the annual North v South fixture. He played in the 1877 fixture at Chelsea, in what would be his only appearance in first-class cricket. Trotter played as an opening batsman. He toured North America with the

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in 1879, and continued to play minor matches for Ireland until 1890. He died at a private hospital in Dublin in March 1912, following a long illness.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trotter, David 1858 births 1912 deaths Cricketers from County Down Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish cricketers North v South cricketers