William Allan Smith-Masters born William Allan Cowburn (13 March 1850 - 27 August 1937) was an English

English people

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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. Smith-Masters batting and bowling

Bowling (cricket)

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 styles are unknown. He was born at Humber, Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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Smith-Masters made a single first-class

First-class cricket

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 appearance for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in 1875 against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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 at the Winchester College Ground

Winchester College Ground

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, Winchester

Winchester

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. In his only first-class innings, Smith-Masters scored 7 runs.

He died in Meopham

Meopham

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, Kent

Kent

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 on 27 August 1937.

Family

Smith-Masters had a distinguished extended family. His brother-in-law, Spencer Gore

Spencer Gore

Spencer William Gore was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club in 1874 and 1875 and a tennis player who won the first Wimbledon Championships in 1877.-Early years:...

, played first-class cricket for Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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, as well as being the first champion of the Wimbledon Championships. His other brother-in-law, Fleetwood Edwards

Fleetwood Edwards

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards GCVO, KCB, ISO was Keeper of the Privy Purse for Queen Victoria from 1895 to 1901.-Early life and personal life:...

, was Keeper of the Privy Purse

Keeper of the Privy Purse

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 to Queen Victoria. He too played first-class cricket, in one match for I Zingari

I Zingari

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. His father, Allan Cowburn, played first-class cricket for Oxford University

Oxford University Cricket Club

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External links

• William Smith-Masters at Cricinfo
• William Smith-Masters at CricketArchive
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