Alfred Walker (cricketer)
English cricketer (1827-1870)
Alfred Walker (8 September 1827 – 4 September 1870) was an English cricketer.
Walker was born in Southgate, Middlesex and was the second of seven cricket playing brothers – the Walkers of Southgate. He was educated in Stanmore and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He played as a right-handed batsman and an underarm bowler in fourteen first-class matches for Cambridge University (1846–1848) and a Middlesex XI (1851–1859).
He died in Arnos Grove, aged 42.
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