Edward Outram Houseman (19 March 1869 – 10 April 1942) was an English

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er. who played for

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in one game during the 1897 season. Houseman was born in

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. His only game for Derbyshire was against

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in the 1897 season. He was out for a

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in the first innings and scored four runs in the second in a match which Derbyshire lost by a one-wicket margin. Houseman was a right-handed batsman. In 1893 Houseman married Ada Ingham in the Prsecot district and by 1904 they had moved to

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. In 1910 their son Edward was killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster and is commemorated on a plaque erected by the Bolton and District Cricket Association on the face of

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.Lancashire Online Parish Clerk project -Parish of Westhoughton
/ref> Houseman died at Westhoughton at the age of 73.

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