Eric Bickmore

Arthur Frederic Bickmore (19 May 1899 – 18 March 1979), known as Eric Bickmore, was an English school teacher and cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club and Oxford University between 1919 and 1929.

Early life Bickmore was born in Tonbridge in Kent, the son of Arthur and Lilian Bickmore. His father, an Oxford graduate, had founded Yardley Court, the prep school for Tonbridge School, in 1898 and was Headmaster, running the school alongside his wife. Bickmore attended the school but won a scholarship to Clifton College where he was in the Cricket XI for four years and captain in his final year at school; He served in the school Officer Training Corps during the early years of World War I. He was a right handed opening batsman who scored 2,254 runs, including two centuries, and appeared in two University matches for Oxford. He played 48 matches for Kent. and went up to Magdalen College, Oxford the same year, winning the first of his two cricket Blues.

Wisden's obituary of Bickmore said that "he was one of the great outfields of his day and was equally good at short-leg." He married Lillias Lawson in 1924, and when he died in Tonbridge in 1979 aged 79, he was the last survivor of the 1920 Oxford team.