William Thomas Taylor 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

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 between 1905 and 1910.

Taylor was born at Wirksworth

Wirksworth

Wirksworth is a small market town in Derbyshire, England, with a population of over 9,000.The population of the Wirksworth area including Cromford, Bolehill and Middleton-by-Wirksworth is about 12,000. Wirksworth is listed in the Domesday Book in 1086. Within it is the source of the River...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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 the son of Walter Taylor of Fern House and his wife Alice. His father was a manufacturer of artificial fertilizer.

Taylor made his Derbyshire debut during the 1905 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1905

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1905 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty-four years. It was their eleventh season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish fourteenth in the Championship table.-1905 season:Derbyshire played...

, against Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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 but made little impression. In the 1906 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1906

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1906 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty five years. It was their twelfth season in the County Championship and they finished bottom of the table having won two matches in the County Championship.-1906...

, he played a match during a West Indian tour of England, when he took two wickets, one of them being of Lebrun Constantine

Lebrun Constantine

Lebrun Samuel Constantine was a coloured West Indian cricketer who toured England in 1900 and 1906 and was a regular member of the Trinidad team from 1893-94 to 1922-23. He was primarily a batsman. He often kept wicket but was also a useful occasional bowler...

. Taylor was recalled during the 1910 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1910

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1910 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty nine years. It was their sixteenth season in the County Championship and they won two matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.-1910 season:Derbyshire played...

, playing two games, in which he was able to keep up his consistency between Test cricketer Arnold Warren

Arnold Warren

Arnold Warren was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1897 and 1920 and played for England in 1905. He was the first bowler from Derbyshire to take 100 wickets in a season, a feat he performed three times.Warren was born in Codnor Park, Derbyshire, the son of...

 and pre-war Derbyshire representative Frederick Bracey

Frederick Bracey

Frederick Cecil Bracey was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1906 to 1914...

. Taylor was a right-handed batsman who played 8 innings in 4 matches with a top score of 11 and an average of 7.57. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and took 2 wickets at an average of 28.

In 1908 Taylor became secretary of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, a post he still held in 1953 when his History of Derbyshire Cricket was published in Wisden.

Taylor died in Breadsall

Breadsall

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 at the age of 91. His brother, Francis Taylor

Francis Taylor (cricketer)

Francis Henry Taylor was an English Cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1908 and 1911.Taylor was born at Wirksworth, Derbyshire the son of Walter Taylor of Fern House and his wife Alice...

, five years his junior, also played first-class cricket for Derbyshire although they never played in the same match