William Hodsoll
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William Hodsoll (born in 1718 at Ash, Kent; died Sat 30 November 1776, also at Ash) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-Georgian period.
Hodsoll was baptised at Ash Parish Church on Tues 28 October 1718. He lived at Dartford from 1742 to 1748 and was a tanner. According to the description of him in James Love’s poem of 1744, Hodsoll was a fast bowler and also a useful batsman. His last recorded appearance was for Dartford v All-England on Dartford Brent in 1752. He died on Sat 30 November 1776, aged 58, and is buried in the chancel of Ash church.
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- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Early Kent Cricketers by John Goulstone (EKC)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
