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Henry Randolph Finch

1842 – 1935

English cricketer and barrister

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Lived 1842 – 1935 (aged 93). Henry Randolph Finch was a cricketer and barrister.

Henry Randolph Finch (18 October 1842 – 6 December 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of Henry Finch, he was born in October 1842 at Paddington. He was educated at Harrow School, before matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford in 1861, where he graduated B.A. in 1866. He played first-class cricket for Southgate against Oxford University in 1864 at Oxford, before playing a first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire at Southampton in 1866. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in April 1868 and practised on the Midland Circuit. Finch also served as a land agent and a justice of the peace for Rutland. He died in Rutland at Oakham in December 1935.

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Balliol College, Harrow School

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Who was Henry Randolph Finch?

English cricketer and barrister (1842-1935)

When was Henry Randolph Finch born?

Henry Randolph Finch was born on 18 October 1842 in Paddington.

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Henry Randolph Finch died on 6 December 1935 in Oakham.

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Henry Randolph Finch was a cricketer and barrister.

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· Wikipedia: Henry Randolph Finch

· Wikidata: Q76184509

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