William George Burrough (22 July 1875 – 30 December 1939) played first-class cricket for Somerset in four matches in the 1906 season.
[2] As a cricketer, Burrough was a fast-medium bowler and a lower-order batsman.
Burrough had earlier played minor cricket for Herefordshire and for the Free Foresters amateur side.
His older brother John Burrough played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1893 and 1895, and William's son Dickie Burrough played 171 matches as a right-handed batsman for Somerset between 1927 and 1947.
A nephew, the son of a different brother but also called John Burrough, played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire in the 1920s and 1930s.