Bill Tyrwhitt-Drake

Thomas William Tyrwhitt-Drake (5 November 1926 – 8 March 2008) was an English first-class cricketer.

Tyrwhitt-Drake was born at Paddington in November 1926, to Reverend Charles William Tyrwhitt-Drake. He was educated at Haileybury, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Somerset at Bath in 1946. He made two further first-class appearances for Cambridge University, playing against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1946 and Leicestershire in 1948. Eleven years later he made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University.

He graduated from Trinity with a master's degree in 1949, and married Muriel Ann Makgill in September 1955, with the couple having three children. He died at Sidcup in March 2008.