About Robert Bayford
Lived 1838 – 1922 (aged 84). Robert Bayford was a British cricketer and barrister.
Robert Augustus Bayford (13 March 1838 – 24 August 1922) was an English cricketer and barrister.
Biography Bayford was born in Albury, Surrey, and educated at Kensington Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He played cricket for eleven different teams at 30 first-class matches from 1857 to 1867, but was mostly involved with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper who bowled roundarm slow pace. He scored 822 runs with a highest score of 92 and held seven catches with four stumpings. He took twelve wickets with a best analysis of four for 42.
After Cambridge, Bayford studied law at the Inner Temple. He was called to the Bar in 1863 and became a QC in 1885.
He died at Netley Hill, Botley, Hampshire.
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British barrister and cricketer
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Robert Bayford died on 24 August 1922 in Botley.
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