Charles Harry (or Henry) Moline (June 1863 – 23 May 1927) was an Anglo-Austrian businessman and a

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who played in two

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matches for

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 1886. Moline was born in

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, then called Laibach and at that stage in the

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, but now in

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; he died in Weston-super-Mare,

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. His precise date of birth is not known. Charles Moline was the son of an English father who was a businessman who set up sugar refining factories in Ljubljana and married a local woman, Emma Kranz, in 1852. The family returned to England in the mid-1860s to live in Bristol where they had sugar refining interests, and Charles was educated at Bristol Grammar School and at

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. Moline had two matches for the University team as a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm slow bowler: in the first he made 16 out of a last-wicket partnership of 40 that took Cambridge's total to 84, and also took his only first-class wicket, but he was not successful in the second game and did not appear again. He played club cricket for Clifton Cricket Club alongside his brothers,

Edgar Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ...

, who also played two first-class matches for

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, and Frank. There is no record that Moline took a degree at

; he went into business in the family sugar refinery trade.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moline, Charles 1863 births 1927 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Bristol Grammar School Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Austro-Hungarian emigrants to England Businesspeople from Bristol