Robert Fenton Miles (24 January 1846 – 26 February 1930) was an English amateur

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er who played

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from 1867 to 1879 for

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and

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. He was a right-handed

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and a slow left arm orthodox bowler who made 69 first-class career appearances. Miles scored 577 runs with a highest score of 79. He took 217 wickets with a best bowling analysis of 7/38. He took five wickets in an innings on 15 occasions and twice took

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. One of 10 children of the Reverend Robert Miles (1818–1883), he was the elder brother of both

Frank Miles George Francis Miles (22 April 1852 – 15 July 1891) was a London-based British artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies, also an architect and a keen plantsman. He was artist in chief to the magazine ''Life'', and between 1 ...

the artist and the Reverend

Charles Oswald Miles Charles Oswald Miles (30 May 1850 – 11 August 1898) was an Anglican priest. Early life Miles was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford where he took an MA in Classics in 1875. He also attended Cuddesdon College in the ...

. Seven members of the family (three brothers, two cousins and an uncle) played first-class cricket in the Victorian era. Miles married Bridget Hare, daughter of the Reverend Henry Bassano Hare, in 1874 and had three children.

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1846 births 1930 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1864 to 1889 Gloucestershire cricketers Oxford University cricketers Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford {{England-cricket-bio-1840s-stub