William Benjamin Clarke (5 November 1846 – 18 August 1902) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed

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who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He and his wife Hannah had two daughters Alice and Amelia and two sons William and

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(who played three times for

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in 1902). Clarke died in Hyson Green, Nottingham in 1902 aged 55.

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