About Robert Marsham
Lived 1833 – 1913 (aged 79–80). Robert Marsham was a British cricketer, barrister, recorder and magistrate.
Robert Henry Bullock Marsham (3 September 1833 – 5 April 1913) was an English barrister and magistrate, known also as a cricketer, who made appearances for Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Life Marsham was born at Merton College, Oxford, the son of Robert Bullock Marsham, the Warden of Merton, and a member of the extended family of the Earl of Romney. His brothers C. D. B. Marsham and Charles Marsham were also cricketers.
Primarily a bowler, Marsham took 35 wickets with his slow-medium roundarm deliveries. His greatest achievement was to bowl MCC to victory against a much stronger Surrey in 1859, where he took twelve wickets in the match. He made many appearances for I Zingari, and also turned out for England against Kent in 1860. He died in Canterbury in 1913.
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Who was Robert Marsham?
English barrister and cricketer (1833-1913)
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Robert Marsham was born in 1833.
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Robert Marsham died in 1913.
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Robert Marsham was a cricketer, barrister, recorder and magistrate.
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Robert Marsham was British.
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· DBpedia: Robert Marsham (cricketer)
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