title: Thomas Bellhouse
text: # Thomas Bellhouse
  
  Thomas Taylor Bellhouse (25 December 1818 – 9 June 1886) was an English first-class cricketer.
  
  Born at Manchester in December 1818, Bellhouse was by profession a solicitor. He played first-class cricket for Manchester, making five appearances between 1846–54. He scored 70 runs in his five matches, with a high score of 28. He died at Sale in June 1886. His brother, Richard, was also a first-class cricketer, while his sister, Margaret, married the cricketer Elgar Pagden; through this marriage he is a distant relation to the South African anti-apartheid activist Molly Blackburn.
  
  