Bill Tyrwhitt-Drake
Thomas William 'Bill' Tyrwhitt-Drake 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. He scored 73 runs for Cambridge across six innings, with a top score of 33. Eleven years later he made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Tyrwhitt-Drake also played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1946-58, making 85 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.
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.
