Charles Pope

Charles George Pope (21 January 1872 – 31 January 1959) was an English schoolmaster and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1892 and 1895. He was born at Sandy, Bedfordshire and died at New Milton, Hampshire.

Pope was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was captain of cricket at Harrow in 1891 and led his side to victory in the annual Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. He was not, however, chosen for the 1893 University Match against Oxford. He played more regularly in 1894, though without success with either bat or ball, and won his Blue, taking two wickets and scoring 11 and 0 as Cambridge were easily beaten by Oxford.

Pope graduated from Cambridge University with a first-class degree in 1894. He returned for a single final first-class cricket match in 1895, and from that season through to 1901 he also played Minor Counties cricket for Bedfordshire. He became a schoolmaster and from 1899 to 1929 he was on the staff at Harrow School, where he had been a pupil too.