William Stewart Eadie was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1885 and 1899.

Eadie was born in Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, the son of James Eadie

James Eadie

James Eadie was a Scottish brewer who founded an eponymous brewery in Burton on Trent which operated for 90 years.Eadie was born at Blackford, Perthshire one of the 14 children of William Eadie and his wife Mary Stewart and was baptised on 12 Jan 1827...

 and his wife Jean. His father, who was from Scotland, had established the James Eadie brewery company at Burton in 1854.

Eadie made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1885 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1885

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. For the years 1887 to 1893 Eadie played over 30 matches for the club while it was without first class status. He then played first class again intermittently until the 1899 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1899 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-eight years. It was their fifth season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.-1899 season:Derbyshire played...

. He was a right arm batsman who played 41 innings in 23 first class matches for Derbyshire, with a top score of 62 and an average of 10.5.

Eadie died at Barrow upon Trent

Barrow upon Trent

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 at the age of 49. His brother, John Eadie

John Eadie (cricketer)

John Thom Clarke Eadie was an English brewer and cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1882.Eadie was born in Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire, the son of James Eadie and his wife Jean. His father, who was from Scotland, had established the James Eadie brewery company at Burton in 1854...

 and nephew Kenneth Dobson

Kenneth Dobson

Kenneth William Cecil Dobson was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Derbyshire and Warwickshire....

both played first-class cricket for Derbyshire.