Herbert Knutton

Herbert John Knutton (14 June 1867 – 12 December 1946) was an English cricketer. Knutton was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. He was born at Coventry, Warwickshire.

Knutton made a single first-class appearance for Warwickshire against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston in 1894. Nottinghamshire won the toss and elected to bat, making 238 in their first-innings, during which Knutton bowled twenty wicketless overs. Responding in their first-innings, Warwickshire made 248 all out, with Knutton being dismissed by Richard Hardstaff for 4 runs. In their second-innings, Nottinghamshire made 146 all out, during which he bowled six overs. Warwickshire reached 97/4 in their second-innings, at which point the match was declared a draw. It was in this same year that he first played in the Lancashire League for Enfield, making a single appearance for the club. The following season he also made another appearance for Enfield in the league, before making a third and final appearance for the club in 1903.

In 1902, Knutton had been playing in the Bradford League when he was selected to play a hastily arranged first-class fixture for an England XI (which contained one former Test player in Willie Quaife) against the touring Australians at Park Avenue, Bradford. He never appeared in first-class cricket again, but did continue to play in the Bradford League, where he took more than a thousand wickets. However, his high, brisk bowling action was sometimes regarded as suspect.

Knutton worked outside of cricket as an athletic outfitter. He died at Heaton, Yorkshire, on 12 December 1946.