Robert George Chadwick Armstrong (12 August 1836 – 9 June 1863) was an English

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er. He was born at

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and played nine times for

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between 1859 and 1861. Armstrong was the son of Samuel Francis and Agnes Armstrong. His father was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and as a young man Robert played cricket for

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and in the Peckham Rye area where he lived for most of his life.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), p. 30.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)Milton H (1999) ''The Bat and Ball Gravesend: a first-class cricket history'', p.127. Gravesend: Gravesend Cricket Club. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent against Middlesex at

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in 1859, making a pair on debut. Armstrong went on to make total of nine first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against England in 1861.Robert Armstrong
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-12-29. He was considered a batsman with "good style" who had once promised "future excellence" Haygarth A ''Scores and Biographies'', quoted in Carlaw ''

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'' but in his 13 innings only once made a double figure score, 10 not out against an England XI at

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in 1860. He was considered "slow" as a fielder. Armstrong played for a range of other sides in other matches, including for United and All England sides a number of times. He died of tuberculosis at

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in what was then

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in June 1863 aged 26.Robert Armstrong

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Robert 1836 births 1863 deaths Sportspeople from Gravesend, Kent English cricketers Kent cricketers 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in England