English cricketer (born 1861)

William Attewell

William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy and economy. On the many sticky or crumbling pitches encountered in his prime Attewell could get on a great deal of spin so as to always beat the bat, whilst his accuracy would make slogging – the only way to make runs under such conditions – very difficult. He was responsible for the development of "off theory" – bowling wide of the off stump to a packed off-side field to frustrate batsmen on the rapidly improving pitches of the 1890s.

Born

1861

June 12

Died

1927

Era

1860s

Country

—

About

William, in brief

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

1861 Born
1927 Died

Also on June 12

What else happened on this day, through history

910 Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
1206 The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi Sultanate.
1240 At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
1381 Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.

See all of June 12 →

The world in 1927

When William departed

april 12 Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.[citation needed]
april 12 Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
april 19 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
april 23 Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.

Read the year 1927 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 12

George H. W. Bush 1924–2018 American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (died 2018) Anne Frank 1929– German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (died 1945) Dallas Clark 1979– American football player Gao Zong 1107– Chinese emperor (died 1187) Ian Craig 1935–2014 Australian cricketer (died 2014) Karl Freiherr von Müffling 1775–1851 Prussian field marshal (born 1775) Oliver Lodge 1851–1940 English physicist and academic (born 1851) Otto Skorzeny 1908– German SS officer (died 1975) Ray Barbuti 1905–1988 American runner and football player (born 1905)

See everything on June 12 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1861

Georges Méliès 1861–1938 French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1938) Gerald Strickland 1861–1940 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861) Henri Mathias Berthelot 1861– French general during World War I (died 1931) Maximilian von Spee 1861–1914 Danish-German admiral (born 1861) Nettie Stevens 1861–1912 American geneticist (died 1912) Pierre Duhem 1861– French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916) Victor Horta 1861– Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (died 1947)

Keep going

More to explore

William's birthday June 12 William's zodiac Gemini When William departed 1927