| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | William Sydney Oke Warner |
| Birth Date: | 29 August 1844 |
| Birth Place: | Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Death Place: | Laverstock, Wiltshire, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Family: | Townsend Warner (brother) |
| Club1: | Cambridge University |
| Year1: | 1865–1868 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 13 |
| Runs1: | 323 |
| Bat Avg1: | 16.15 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/1 |
| Top Score1: | 50 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 7/– |
| Date: | 25 January |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/william-warner-227492 Cricinfo |
William Sidney Oke Warner (29 August 1844 – 22 October 1871) was a Welsh-born English cricketer who played in 13 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1865 and 1868.[1] He was born at Swansea, Glamorgan and died at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Warner was educated at home in Devon by his clergyman father and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He had played a lot of cricket for the Gentlemen of Devon team as a right-handed middle-order batsman, but failed to make much impression on Cambridge cricket in either 1865 or 1866.[1] In 1867, however, he scored 43 in his first match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[3] He then retained his place in the first eleven all the way through to the University Match against Oxford University when, top-scoring for his side in each innings with 27 and 34 not out, he played a big part in a Cambridge victory.[4] He played again regularly in 1868 and made his highest first-class score, 50, in the match against Surrey.[5] His final first-class match was the 1868 University Match, though his contribution to another Cambridge victory was limited.[1]
Warner graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868.[2] He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1870 and served as curate at Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight from that year.[2] After a year, however, he died, aged 27.
Warner's older brother The Reverend George Townsend Warner (1841-1902) was a much less successful cricketer at Cambridge. He was also the great-uncle of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the English novelist, poet and musicologist.[6]