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Teams played under the Nottinghamshire name from 1829 onwards and many of the players listed also played for Nottinghamshire teams. A Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire combined team also played one match in 1803 which has been given first-class status and Nottinghamshire sides played eight first-class matches between 1835 and 1840. Players who played in matches for these teams or Nottinghamshire only are not included in this list. Note that many players represented other teams besides Nottingham.
Employed as a professional at Lord's, Barker played in 72 first-class matches, including 13 for Nottingham. He also played for Nottinghamshire sides as well as MCC and England XIs.
Butler made 36 first-class appearances, two of which were for Nottingham. He also played for Nottinghamshire and a range of other sides and was employed as a professional at Trent Bridge.
Played almost 150 first-class matches and was extremely influential in both Nottingham and Nottinghamshire cricket, controlling cricket in the city from 1831 until 1846 when he moved to London and founded William Clarke's All-England Eleven.
Played in seven first-class matches, six of which were for Nottingham and the other for the combined Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire side which played a single first-class match in 1803.
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Thomas Foster
1827–1828
Two matches for Nottingham are all that is known of Foster's cricket career.
Played in 68 first-class matches, mostly after being employed at Lord's in 1834. He made his first-class debut for Nottingham and played five times for the side.
Played in both of the side's 1848 matches - the only first-class matches he played. Was influential in the development of Trent Bridge and was Secretary of the county club.
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Francis Kerry
1830
Kerry's only known cricket match was a first-class appearance for Nottingham.
North played in only three first-class matches, all for Nottingham. He compiled a reference work dealing with early Nottingham scorecards, a source for many of the early matches played by the side.
Four of Oscroft's nine first-class matches were for Nottingham, the others being for Nottinghamshire sides. He spent ten years employed as a professional cricketer, including in Edinburgh.
Known as the Lion of the North, Parr was considered the greatest batsman of his time and played in over 200 first-class matches in a career which lasted from 1844 to 1870. These included both of Nottingham's 1848 matches as well as 53 for Nottinghamshire.
Four of Rothera's first-class matches were for Nottingham.
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William Sheraton
1827–1831
Played in six first-class matches, all for Nottingham.
Hiram Slack
1831–1832
Both of Slack's first-class matches were for Nottingham, playing against Sheffield on each occasion. He scored a total of 47 runs with a highest score of 23. He is known to have played club cricket from 1827, probably until 1836 and is believed to be the uncle of another cricketing Hiram Slack.
One of four brothers to have played for the side, Warsop is the only one who made first-class appearances for Nottingham. He had played in the 1803 Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire side alongside his brother Thomas.
Very little is known of Foster's life other than that he came from Bingham in Nottinghamshire.
Gibson was born in Nottingham and christened in October 1801. He was married at Radford in 1824 but little is known about his life.
The use of John as Henson's forename is in some doubt.
Francis Smith Kerry is known to have been christened in early January 1803 in Nottingham, but no further biographical information is available about him.
Other than Sheraton's first-class matches, he is not known to have played any other cricket and there are no substantial biographical details about him other than his name. He may have lived in Radford during the 1820s, but there is no substantial evidence for this and his birth and death details are unknown.
Slack was born at Hucknall Torkard in 1808 and died at Mickleover in 1853. His death was reported in a Nottingham newspaper as a suicide occurring at the Derbyshire County Lunatic Asylum, and he was recorded as a "pauper lunatic".
There are several instances of a Trueman playing for Nottingham and other clubs in the Nottingham area between 1810 and 1840, but in only one case is a forename given.