William Alfred Wallis was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 during the 1906 season.

Wallis was born in Long Eaton

Long Eaton

Long Eaton is a town in Derbyshire, England. It lies just north of the River Trent about southwest of Nottingham and is part of the Nottingham Urban Area...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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 the son of William Wallis and his wife Emma. His father was a lace manufacturer with the firm of Wallis and Sons

Wallis made his first and only first-class appearance for Derbyshire in May 1906 against Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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. Wallis was bowled out in his first innings on 6 by Walter Mead

Walter Mead (cricketer)

Walter Mead was the principal bowler for Essex during their first two decades as a first-class county. As a member of the Lord’s ground staff, he was also after J.T...

, and in the second on 11 by Alec Hearne

Alec Hearne

Alec Hearne was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent between 1884 and 1906. Hearne was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1894...

. He was a right-handed batsman, and made one catch in the outfield.

Wallis died in Wilsthorpe at the age of 50.