Henry Clegg

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Henry Clegg was a first class cricketer who played 6 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1881. He also appeared for T Emmett's XI in first class matches in 1881 and 1883. A right hand batsman he scored 96 runs at 10.66 with a top score of 27 against He also played for Northumberland in the Minor Counties in 1884. He played for the Dewsbury and Savile club in the 1890s and spent a year at Little Lever Cricket Club in Bolton as joint groundsman. He worked as a woollen cloth finisher, according to the census of 1881, and had a wife, Hannah and a son, James.

Born on December 8, 1850 in Birstal he died, aged 70, on December 30, 1920 in Dewsbury.