Harry Butt
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
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| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 3 | 550 |
| Runs scored | 22 | 7,391 |
| Batting average | 7.33 | 12.83 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/18 |
| Top score | 13 | 96 |
| Balls bowled | 0 | 60 |
| Wickets | 0 | 0 |
| Bowling average | n/a | n/a |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | n/a | n/a |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/1 | 954/277 |
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Test debut: 13 February 1896 |
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Henry ("Harry") Rigden Butt (born 27 December 1865 in Sands End, Fulham, Middlesex, England; died 21 December 1928 in West Hill, Hastings, Sussex, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1890 and 1912. Butt also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895-96. He later went on to become an umpire, and stood in that role in six Tests. His popularity was such that when he retired as an umpire due to ill-health, the County captains wrote to the Secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club asking him to write to Butt to express their regret at the cause.
Butt, a short man, was Sussex's wicket-keeper for twenty years. He was awarded two benefits: the matches between Sussex and Yorkshire at Hove in 1900, and between Sussex and Middlesex at Lord's in 1928.
