William Blackman (27 November 1862 – 2 June 1885) was a

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 who played first-class cricket for

Sussex County Cricket Club Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...

. He was educated at

Ardingly College Ardingly College () is an independent boarding and day school in the English public school tradition located near Ardingly, West Sussex, England. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and of the Woodard Corp ...

and played 34 times for Sussex between 1881 and 1884.Brief profile of William Blackman
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2008-06-06. Suffering from poor health, he then moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 22 within a few months.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blackman, William 1862 births 1885 deaths People educated at Ardingly College Sussex cricketers People from Arundel 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Cricketers from West Sussex British emigrants to colonial Australia Tuberculosis deaths in Victoria (state)