Herbert Richard Orr (3 February 1865 – 22 May 1940) was an English
cricket
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er who played four
first-class matches for
Cambridge University
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and
Western Australia
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between 1886 and 1892.
Born in
Kensington
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in London, Orr was educated at
Bedford School
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and
Jesus College, Cambridge
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. He played for Cambridge University in 1886 and 1887. He played a single match for the
Melbourne Cricket Club
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against
Lord Sheffield's XI during the English team's 1891–92 tour, and later moved to
Western Australia
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, where he was the state's inaugural
cricket captain. Orr captained the team in each of its first two matches, with Western Australia losing both.
Returning to England in 1899, Orr was made a
second lieutenant
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Australia
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in the Cadet Corps (Bedford County School) in 1902, attached to the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment of the
Royal Engineers
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. He went on to play 111
minor counties
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matches for
Bedfordshire County Cricket Club between 1900 and 1921, and his brothers, Rowland and John Orr, also both represented Bedfordshire in minor counties matches. Orr died in
Sevenoaks
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,
Kent
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, in May 1940.
Herbert Orr
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
References
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1865 births
1940 deaths
Bedfordshire cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
English cricketers
People educated at Bedford School
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
Sportspeople from Kensington
Western Australia cricketers