Robert Henry Bullock-Marsham Vanity Fair 12 October 1905

Robert Henry Bullock Marsham (3 September 1833 – 5 April 1913) was an English barrister and magistrate, known also as a

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er, who made appearances for

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and the

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(MCC).

Life

Marsham was born at

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, the son of

Robert Bullock Marsham Robert Bullock Marsham (17 June 1786 – 27 December 1880) was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford for 54 years. Marsham was the son of Jacob Marsham, Canon of Windsor (son of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney) and his wife Ame ...

, the Warden of Merton, and a member of the extended family of the

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. His brothers C. D. B. Marsham and Charles Marsham were also cricketers. Primarily a bowler, Marsham took 35

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s with his slow-medium

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deliveries. His greatest achievement was to bowl MCC to victory against a much stronger

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side in 1859, where he took twelve wickets in the match. He made many appearances for

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, and also turned out for England against

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in 1860. Like his brothers, Marsham studied at Merton College. After graduating at Oxford he studied law, and was

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in 1860. He was

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1868–79 and was also a

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. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Marsham, Robert Henry Bullock He died in

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in 1913.

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