William Salmon (cricketer)

William Joseph Salmon (29 May 1846 – 25 October 1907) was a businessman and first-class cricketer in New Zealand.

When travelling he returned on most weekends to Wellington, where he was a keen lawn bowler.

He died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 61 while at work in Palmerston North.

He left a wife, Sarah, and a grown-up family of two sons and a daughter.

[2] He played cricket, as a batsman who usually opened the innings and sometimes kept wicket, for Wellington from 1873 to 1889, and also represented Hawke's Bay in 1886 and Taranaki in 1892.