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Frederick Burton (English cricketer)

Frederick Alfred Burton was an English cricketer active from the early 1910s to the early 1930s. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, Burton played in half a dozen first-class cricket matches, but was mostly associated with Hertfordshire in minor counties cricket. The son of first-class cricketer George Burton, he was born at Islington, Middlesex, and died at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His father-in-law was George Hearne of the Hearne family.

Cricket career
Burton made his debut for Hertfordshire against the Surrey Second XI in the 1910 Minor Counties Championship, with him featuring in 43 Minor Counties Championship matches before the suspension of county cricket in September 1914 due to the First World War. He appeared in first-class cricket for the MCC the following season against Cambridge University, while in 1924 he was selected to represent a combined Minor Counties cricket team against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI. while with the ball he took 11 wickets, averaging 51.27 per wicket, with best figures of 4/101. ==See also==
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