Edgar Hawson (25 July 1878 – 29 September 1946) was an Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played five
first-class matches for
Tasmania
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between 1899 and 1905.
Hawson was a son of Edward Hawson (died 3 November 1925), noted Hobart businessman and a trustee of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, and his wife Mary Jane Hawson (née Smith, died 13 October 1924), who married in 1873.
Hawson married Mary A. E. Gasmier of
Riverton, South Australia
Riverton is a small town in the Mid North of South Australia, in the Gilbert Valley. It is situated on the Gilbert River, from which the town derives its name. Both the Gilbert Valley and Gilbert River were named after South Australian pioneer ...
on 25 September 1915.
Reginald James Hawson (2 September 1880 – 20 February 1928) was a brother.
See also
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List of Tasmanian representative cricketers
This is a list of cricket players who have played representative cricket for Tasmania in Australia.
It includes players that have played at least one match, in senior first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 matches. Practice matches are not i ...
References
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1878 births
1946 deaths
Australian cricketers
Tasmania cricketers
Cricketers from Hobart
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