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DeutschRawdon Briggs
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| Full name | Rawdon Briggs | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1853 Warkworth, Northumberland, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 August 1936 (aged 82) Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm roundarm fast | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1875–1876 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Rawdon Briggs (30 December 1853 – 21 August 1936) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of Rawdon Briggs senior, he was born in December 1853 at Warkworth, Northumberland. He was educated at Winchester College,[1] before going up to St John's College, Oxford.[2] While studying at Oxford, Briggs played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1874 and 1875, making ten appearances.[3] He scored 342 runs in his ten first-class matches, at an average of 21.37 and with a highest score of 71.[4] After graduating from Oxford, he took holy orders in the Anglican Church. He was the canon of All Saints, Bradford from 1877–82 and was the vicar there from 1882.[1] Briggs died at Bedford in August 1936.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hardy, Henry John (1923). Winchester College, 1867–1920. P. and G. Wells. p. 236. ISBN 1473864194.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Rawdon Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Rawdon Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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