Esmé Thomas Lancelot Reed Haywood (23 August 1900 – 8 January 1985) played first-class

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 cricket

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 for Somerset

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 in 1925 and 1927. He was born at East Preston

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, Sussex

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 and died at Fownhope

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, Herefordshire

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.

Haywood was educated at Cheltenham College

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. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He played for Somerset in seven first-class matches across the middle of the 1925 season, but achieved a degree of success only in the first two of them. In his debut match against Sussex

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 at Horsham

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 he scored 38 in the second innings, and this was to be his highest first-class score. Then in the following game at The Oval

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 against Surrey

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, he made 14 and 36, though Somerset were trounced by a Surrey side that included three century-makers. Haywood reached double figures in only one further innings and he was no more successful when he returned for a single match for Somerset in 1927.