Frederick George Bull, born at Hackney

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, London

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 on 2 April 1875 and found drowned at St Annes-on-Sea

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, Lancashire

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, on 16 September 1910, was a cricketer

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 who played for Essex

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Bull was a lower-order right-hand batsman and an off break

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 bowler who had a few very productive seasons for Essex and after the most successful of them was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1898. He came to the fore in 1896 with 85 wickets, took 120 in 1897 and then 101 in 1898. But in 1899, he fell away, with only 65 wickets and the following year, after seven matches in which he took only five wickets, he took a job in Blackburn, Lancashire

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 and left the first-class

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 game.

There was one brief comeback. In 1905, five years after his final game for Essex, Bull played for Scotland

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 against the Australian touring team

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. He took eight wickets in the match, with five for 58 runs in the Australians' second innings.