Robert Samuel Battiscombe (13 April 1799 – 13 March 1881) was an English first-class

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er associated with

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who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in two matches from 1819 to 1821, totalling 29 runs with a highest score of 17. Battiscombe was born at

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in Berkshire and educated at

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and

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. He was admitted to the Bar as a lawyer in 1827, but later became a Church of England clergyman, serving as

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, London, from 1835 to 1840 and Barkway with

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, from 1840 to his death in 1881 aged 81.

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English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Cambridge University cricketers 1799 births 1881 deaths People from Windsor, Berkshire People from Barkway People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests {{England-cricket-bio-1790s-stub