John Hampshire was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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er, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 in 1937. A right-arm fast bowler, he played three first-class matches, scoring 5 runs at an average of 2.50, and took five wickets at 21.80, plus one catch.

Born in Goldthorpe

Goldthorpe

Goldthorpe is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Anciently a small medieval farming village, Goldthorpe is recorded in the Domesday Book and was under the Manor of Bolton upon Dearne which was once owned by Roger de Busli.Goldthorpe railway station...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, England

England

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, he created a cricketing family. His son, Alan Hampshire

Alan Hampshire

Alan Wesley Hampshire is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975....

, played one match for Yorkshire in 1975, and his other son is the former Yorkshire and England batsman and umpire

Umpire (cricket)

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, most commonly referred to as Jack Hampshire

John Hampshire

John Harry Hampshire John Harry Hampshire John Harry Hampshire (born 10 February 1941, Thurnscoe (near Barnsley, Yorkshire) better known as Jack Hampshire, is a former English cricketer, who played eight Tests and three ODIs for England between 1969 and 1975. He played first-class cricket for...

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Hampshire died in Rotherham

Rotherham

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, Yorkshire in May 1997, at the age of 83.