William Harbord (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Harbord (cricketer)
English county cricketer
Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1908
Place of Birth: Manton, Rutland, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 28-Jul-1992
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William Harbord (cricketer)
- William Edward Harbord (15 December 1908 – 28 July 1992) played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club as an amateur player between 1929 and 1935.
- He also played once for Oxford University in 1930 and for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1934 and 1935.
- He appeared for Yorkshire's Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship competition between 1928 and 1933, and for a Minor Counties representative side in a non-first-class match in 1934. Born in Manton, Rutland, Harbord was a right-handed batsman, who scored 512 runs at 18.28 with his top score, his only century, 109, coming for Yorkshire against Oxford University in 1930.
- He also scored 63* against Cambridge University.
- He was one of the few Yorkshire players not born in the county in the years before the club lifted this restriction in 1992.Harbord went on two international cricket tours: with H.
- M.
- Martineau's side to Egypt in 1934, and then with the official MCC side to the West Indies in 1934-35.
- Four Tests were played on that West Indies tour, but Harbord did not play in any of them, although he did appear in four other first-class matches there.
- He was twelfth man for the first two Tests, then interrupted his tour to take a private trip to Miami.He served on the Yorkshire committee for many years, becoming a vice-president.
- His brother-in-law, John Atkinson-Clark, played eight games for Middlesex from 1930 to 1932. Harbord was married and divorced twice.
- Each marriage produced two children.
- He was deputy chairman of John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster.
- He died in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Read more at Wikipedia