William Hopkinson (cricketer)

William Hopkinson (29 April 1835 – 25 November 1913) was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club in the early 1860s.[1][2]

Hopkinson was born on 29 April 1835 in Staveley, Derbyshire and played cricket for a Derbyshire side in his youth.[3] In around 1855 he moved to Chatham in Kent to work as an engine fitter in the Royal Naval dockyard in the town.[3] He played as a professional for Kent County Cricket Club between 1861 and 1863, making a total of 13 first-class cricket appearances, all bar one of them for the county side.[4] Hopkinson left the Kent staff after the 1863 season and took a position as a cricket coach at Lancing College and then Westminster School.[3]

Hopkinson died, aged 78, on 25 November 1913 in Gillingham, Kent.[3]

References
  1. William Hopkinson, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 265–266. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. "Death of former Derbyshire Cricketer". Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. 6 December 1913. p. 13.
  4. William Hopkinson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-11.

William Hopkinson at ESPNcricinfo


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