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Rowland Venables

1846 – 1920

English cricketer and barrister

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Lived 1846 – 1920 (aged 74). Rowland Venables was a cricketer and barrister.

Rowland George Venables (18 January 1846 – 9 March 1920) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.

The son of The Reverend Joseph Venables, he was born at Truro in January 1846. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to University College, Oxford.

While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University, against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1866 and the Gentlemen of England in 1869. He scored 26 runs in his two matches, in addition to taking 4 wickets with his left-arm roundarm medium pace bowling, with best figures of 3 for 25.

A student of the Inner Temple, Venables was called to the bar in 1872. He was a member of the Oxford circuit and the chairman of the Ludlow Board of Guardians. He was also a justice of the peace for Shropshire and the Welsh county of Denbighshire. in addition to being a member of the Free Foresters Cricket Club. Venables died suddenly at Oswestry in March 1920.

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English cricketer and barrister (1846-1920)

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Rowland Venables was born on 18 January 1846 in Truro.

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Rowland Venables died on 9 March 1920 in Oswestry.

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Rowland Venables was a cricketer and barrister.

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· Wikipedia: Rowland Venables

· Wikidata: Q85798018

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