William Richmond (1 December 1843 – 11 November 1912) was an English

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 str ...

er. Richmond was born at

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, at the confluence of the River C ...

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, the son of a grocer.William Richmond
CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-06-13.Ambrose D (2004
Lancashire player number 42 - Richmond, William
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-13. He won awards for athletics as a young man and played club cricket for

Burnley Cricket Club Burnley Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League (cricket), Lancashire League based at Turf Moor in Burnley, Lancashire. The club was a founder member of the Lancashire League in 1892 and has won the Lancashire League (cricket)#1 ...

, considered as a powerful batsman. He played in a single

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

match for Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1868, scoring a single run in his two innings.William Richmond
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-13. Richmond was in business in Burnley as a textile machinist. He was a freemason and organist at a non-conformist chapel in the town. He died in 1912 aged 68.

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* 1843 births 1912 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Cricketers from Burnley {{england-cricket-bio-1840s-stub