Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Charles Robinson was

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army officer and a

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er who captained

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. He also played for

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and for the amateur Gentlemen and England XI teams.

Family and cricket

Robinson was born in 1883 at

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House near

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, and educated at Marlborough College. His father was Gloucestershire player Arthur Robinson and his grandfather was

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. Many of his relations were prominent cricketers.

Military career

He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the 3rd (militia) Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment on 19 March 1902. He fought in

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with the

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, and became a

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. He later bred cows at Ham Court Farm near Cheltenham and died there in 1963.

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