Charles Augustus Rocke (5 October 180022 November 1865) was an English

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er who played in six first-class matches between 1822 and 1828. Rocke was born at Calcuta in British India in 1800, the third son of Richard and Susannah Rocke (''

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'' Pattle). He was educated at Eton before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge in 1821.Staplyton HEC ed (1864) ''Eton School Lists, 1791 to 1850'', p. 84. London: EP Williams.
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at The Internet Archive. Retrieved 18 April 2024.)Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 469–470.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 16 August 2022.) He made his first-class cricket debut for Cambridge University in 1822 and went on to play in five other first-class matches, playing twice for the

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and once for MCC in 1827, and twice for Kent XIs the following year. He scored a total of 47 runs and took six wickets in these matches and is known to have also played for a side organised by Benjamin Aislabie at

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in 1826. Little is known about Rocke's later life. In 1830 he was cited as a "bankrupt" in a notice in '' The Times'' and he is believed to have emigrated to Borneo in 1849, where his second cousin James Brooke was Rajah of Sarawak. He died on 22November 1865, aged 65, at Calcutta.

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