Herbert Lee
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Herbert Lee was an English
English people
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 first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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er, who played five matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 in 1885.

Born in Taylor Hill, Huddersfield
Huddersfield
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, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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, England
England
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, Lee was a right-handed batsman, who scored 20 runs at 3.33, with a best score of 20 against Middlesex
Middlesex County Cricket Club
Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...

. He took 2 catches in the field, but did not bowl. He scored 141 for Yorkshire Colts against Nottinghamshire Colts in 1885.

He died in February 1908 in Lockwood
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, Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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.

His brother, George Lee
George Lee (cricketer)
George Henry Lee was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1879 in the Roses Match at Old Trafford...

, also played one match for Yorkshire.

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