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Cloudesley Dewar Bullock Marsham (30 January 1835 – 23 March 1915) was an English amateur

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er who played mainly for Oxford University Cricket Club, The Gentlemen and

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in the period between 1854 and 1866.First-class matches played by Cloudesley Marsham
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-09-29.

Family

Marsham was born at

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in 1835, the son of

Robert Bullock Marsham Robert Bullock Marsham (17 June 1786 – 27 December 1880) was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford for 54 years. Marsham was the son of Jacob Marsham, Canon of Windsor (son of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney) and his wife Ame ...

, the Warden of Merton, and a member of the extended family of the

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.Charles Marsham - obituary
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'', 1902. Retrieved 2016-09-29. He was a student at Merton College and later became the

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near Maidstone in

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in 1888.Lewis P (2013) ''For Kent and Country'', p. 253. Brighton: Reveille Press. His brothers,

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and

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both played

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for Oxford and MCC whilst his brother-in-law

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made three first-class appearances for

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. His sons, Cloudesley Henry Bullock Marsham and

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both played for Kent, the former captaining the county to their first

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'', 1916. Retrieved 2008-07-21. as did his grandson Algernon.

Cricketing career

In 34 first-class matches, Marsham scored 602 runs at an

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of 11.57, and took 180 wickets with his medium-fast roundarm deliveries between 1854 and 1866. He was considered an excellent bowler for time, using his height effectively and bowling "very straight". In his

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, '' Wisden'' described him as "in his day, the best amateur bowler in England". He played 11 times for Oxford University, ten times for The Gentlemen and four times for England as well as appearing in matches of teams such as MCC and others.First-class batting and fielding for each team by Cloudesley Marsham
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-09-29. He made a number of non-first-class appearances for teams such as Harlequins,

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and

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and played for

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after his first-class career was over.Miscellaneous matches played by Cloudesley Marsham
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-09-29.

References

External links

* 1835 births 1915 deaths Oxford University cricketers Cricketers from Oxford English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers Southgate cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests {{england-cricket-bio-1830s-stub