RB
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English cricketer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
13 April 1799
Death:
13 March 1881(Barkway, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, East of England)
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The details
Biography
Robert Samuel Battiscombe (born 13 April 1799 in Clewer, Berkshire; died 13 March 1881 in Barkway, Hertfordshire) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in two matches from 1819 to 1821, totalling 29 runs with a highest score of 17. Battiscombe was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the Bar as a lawyer in 1827, but later became a Church of England clergyman, serving as vicar of Barkway with Reed, Hertfordshire, from 1840 to his death in 1881.