Thomas Darnton

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Thomas Darnton was an English first class cricketer. He played 13 matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1858 and 1868 and 20 first class games overall.

He was born on February 12, 1836 in Stockton-on-Tees and died, at the age of 38, on October 25, 1874 in the same County Durham town.

He took 18 wickets with his right arm, roundarm medium paced bowling at 27.33 and scored 402 runs at 12.18 with a top score of 81* out of 144 for Yorkshire against an All England XI in 1865. His best innings was made in vain however as Yorkshire lost by an innings.

He also played for Yorkshire and Durham (1858), Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees (1861), England (1864-1865), North of England (1864) and the United England Eleven (1866-1868).