Dick Barlow
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| Full name | Richard Gorton Barlow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 May 1851 Bolton, England |
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| Died | 31 July 1919 (aged 68) Blackpool, England |
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| Nickname | Dick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Left arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 29) | 31 December 1881 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 1 March 1887 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1871–1891 | Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tests umpired | 1 (1899) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 2 October 2009
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Richard ("Dick") Gorton Barlow (28 May 1851 in Barrow Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, England – 31 July 1919 in Stanley Park, Blackpool, Lancashire, England) was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. Barlow will be best remembered for his batting partnership with A N Hornby, which was immortalised in nostalgic poetry by Francis Thompson. He was also an umpire and a football referee, including at the record 26-0 score between Preston North End and Hyde in the FA Cup.
Cricket was engrained in Barlow from an early age, and he went on to play for Lancashire for 20 years and continued to play at lower levels into his sixties. Before this he had left school aged fourteen to work in a printing office as an apprentice compositor. He was later an iron moulder with Dobson & Barlow in Bolton, and then in 1865 he moved to Derbyshire when his father got work at the Staveley Iron Works. It was for Staveley Iron Works Cricket Club that Barlow first played cricket, becoming a cricket professional with Farsley in Leeds in 1871, which was the year in which he first played for Lancashire. From 1873 to 1877 he was the professional for Saltaire in Bradford. Barlow played one match for Derbyshire in the 1875 season against a United North of England Eleven.
Barlow was 5 ft 8 inches tall and weighed approximately eleven stone. He was strong and sturdily built. Barlow was known for his defensive batting, which made it hard to dismiss him, and which earned him the nickname Stonewaller. On one occasion he scored no runs in a partnership of 45 with AN Hornby, who was dismissed for 44. Barlow was also a good bowler with much variation.
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