William Barton (16 January 1777 – 7 January 1825) was an English

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er who played

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for a large number of sides during the period between 1795 and 1817. Barton was born at

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in 1777. He is first known to have played cricket for a Middlesex side in 1793 before making his first-class debut in 1795, playing for Middlesex against an MCC side at

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. He made a total of 37 appearances in first-class matches, including 13 for England sides. He played first-class matches for sides representing Middlesex four times,

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three times and once each for

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and

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sides.William Barton
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-04-10. Barton is known to have scored 801 runs, with a highest score of 69, and taken at least seven wickets in his career.William Barton

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. Retrieved 2022-06-20. Barton died at

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in London in 1825. His nephew

Robert Barton Robert Childers Barton (14 March 1881 – 10 August 1975) was an Anglo-Irish politician, Irish nationalist and farmer who participated in the negotiations leading up to the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. His father was Charles William Ba ...

played a single first-class match for a Middlesex side in 1850.Robert Barton
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* English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Middlesex cricketers 1777 births 1825 deaths Hampshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Kent cricketers Surrey cricketers Non-international England cricketers Epsom cricketers The Bs cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers R. Leigh's XI cricketers William Ward's XI cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1770s-stub