Charles Oxenden (born 23 May 1800 at Deane, near Wingham Kent; died 17 March 1874 at

Barham, Kent Barham is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England. Barham village is approximately south-east from Canterbury and north from Folkestone. History The name Barham was spelt ''Bioraham'' in 799, from ''B ...

) was an English amateur

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er who helped found the

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, and played

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

for the club from 1820 to 1822. He made 4 known appearances in first-class cricket.CricketArchive
Retrieved on 28 August 2009. Charles Oxenden was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, where he captained the school cricket team in 1818, and arranged the first regular

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cricket match. He was admitted to

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

in 1819. Subsequently, ordained as a Church of England clergyman, he was Rector of Barham from 1846 until his death. His son, Charles junior, was also a first-class cricketer.

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Arthur Haygarth Arthur Haygarth (4 August 1825 – 1 May 1903) was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex between 1844 and 1861, as well as num ...

, ''Scores & Biographies'', Volume 1 (1744–1826), Lillywhite, 1862 1800 births 1874 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Cambridge University cricketers Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge People from Wingham, Kent People educated at Harrow School 19th-century English Anglican priests {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub