William Prince (28 March 1868 – 1 June 1948) was an English

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er who played

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for

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in 1898. Prince was born in

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, the son of Thomas Prince, a coal miner, and his wife Hannah. In 1881 the family was living at

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, Nottingham and Prince himself was a miner at the age of 13. Prince, with fellow one-timer John Bourne, played one match for Derbyshire in the 1898 season in July against

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. A right-arm medium-fast bowler, Prince was given little chance to bowl and took no wickets, but conceded just thirteen from nine overs, the best runs-per-over rate for the team during the entire match. He was a right-handed batsman and as a tailender, put on two runs in the first innings and did not bat in the second innings as the match finished as a draw.William Prince at Cricket Archive
/ref> Prince died in New Ollerton at the age of 80.

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