Career
Born in Spring Hall, Shelf, West Yorkshire, England, Bottomley was a right-handed batsman. He scored 166 runs at 13.83 with a best of 32, and took one wicket, in the Roses Match of 1879 at Bramall Lane, with his roundarm fast bowling at a cost of 75. He took four wickets in four balls while playing for Low Moor Community College in 1883.
He lived in Ovenden before moving to Morecambe, and died in Heysham, Lancashire in April 1922.
His funeral took place at Shelf Church.
