Charles William Walker (11 January 1851 – 3 December 1941) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Charles William Walker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1851 Bradford, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 December 1941(1941-12-03) (aged 90) Palmerston North, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm slow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Ashley Walker (cousin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 November 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The son of Charles Walker, he was born in January 1851 at Bolling Hall, Bradford. He was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the cricket eleven in 1870.[1] He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South at Beeston in 1870.[2] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 19 runs in the Gentlemen of the South first-innings by W. G. Grace, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 40 runs by Fred Grace. With his right-arm slow bowling, he bowled a total of 26 wicketless overs across the match.[3]
After leaving Harrow, Walker went into business, before emigrating to New Zealand in the 1870s and settling in the Manawatu region. He married a widow, Fanny Randolph, in Palmerston North in July 1911.[4] She died in 1925.[5] He died at Palmerston North in December 1941.[6] His cousin, Ashley Walker, also played first-class cricket.
Cricinfo gives an incorrect date of death (2 March 1915). This is for the death of a different Charles William Walker, born in 1854, who died in Auckland, New Zealand.[7]