William Harry Price (born 4 December 1859) was an English

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who played two first-class matches for Liverpool and District in 1889. He was born in

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. Both his games were at

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. In the first, against

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, he made 26 * and 1* and took 3-52 (including the wicket of

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) in an innings defeat. In the second, against

, he made only 0 and 1 with the bat, but took 6–51 in the first innings and a further wicket in the second despite Nottinghamshire's nine-wicket victory. Three of Price's relatives played first-class cricket: his father

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appeared more than 30 times for a variety of teams, most notably

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(MCC) and Nottinghamshire, while his brother

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played briefly for

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and Nottinghamshire, and another brother (

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) had a solitary outing for North of England.

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