Edward Outram Houseman was an English

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 cricket

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er. who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in one game during the 1897 season.

Houseman was born in Dronfield

Dronfield

Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire in the North Midlands region of England. It comprises the three communities of Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston. It is sited in the valley of the small River Drone, and lies between the town of Chesterfield and the city of Sheffield. The...

, Derbyshire

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. His only game for Derbyshire was against Lancashire

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 in the 1897 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1897

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. He was out for a duck

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 in the first innings and scored four runs in the second in a match which Derbyshire lost by a one-wicket margin. Houseman was a right-handed batsman.

In 1893 Houseman married Ada Ingham in the Prsecot district and by 1904 they had moved to Westhoughton

Westhoughton

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, Lancashire

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. In 1910 their son Edward was killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster

Pretoria Pit Disaster

The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident that occurred on 21 December 1910, when there was an underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West...

and is commemorated on a plaque erected by the Bolton and District Cricket Association in Westhoughton Town Hall.

Houseman died at Westhoughton at the age of 73.