William Henry Thompson (18 January 1866 – 28 September 1920) was an English

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and

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styles are unknown. He was born at

Padiham Padiham ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Calder, about west of Burnley, Lancashire, England. It forms part of the Borough of Burnley. Originally by the River Calder, it is edged by the foothills of Pendle Hill to the north-west ...

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. Educated at

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, Thompson made a single first-class appearance for Liverpool and District against

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in 1892 at Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool. In a match which Liverpool and District won by 6 wickets, Thompson batted once, scoring 10 runs in Liverpool and District's first-innings before he was dismissed by

Louis Hall Louis Hall (1 November 1852 – 19 November 1915) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Yorkshire from 1873 to 1892. Life and career Born in Batley, Yorkshire, Hall made his first-class debut in 1873, when he played a few ma ...

, while with the ball he took a single wicket, that of Thomas Wardall in Yorkshire's second-innings. He died at

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, Lancashire on 28 September 1920.

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