Robert John Farquharson Remnant, 2nd Baron Remnant
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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(29 March 1895 – 4 June 1967) was an English
cricket
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er, active from 1920 to 1936. A right-handed
batsman
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and right-arm
medium-fast
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bowler, he made three appearances in
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but was mostly associated with
minor counties cricket
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.
The son of
James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant
James Farquharson Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant, (13 February 1862 – 30 January 1933), known as Sir James Remnant, 1st Baronet, from 1917 to 1928, was a British Conservative politician.
Biography
Remnant was the son of Frederick William Remnant ...
, Remnant was born at
Westminster
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,
London
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. He was educated at
Eton College
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and later attended
Magdalen College, Oxford.
Remnant served with the
Royal Berkshire Regiment
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during the
First World War
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, reaching the rank of
major.
He made his debut in minor counties cricket for
Berkshire following the war in 1920 against
Hertfordshire at Watford.
He played regularly for Berkshire throughout the 1920s, and in 1931 he was selected to play in first-class match for a combined
Minor Counties cricket team
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against the touring
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at
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.
He succeeded his father as the 2nd Baron Remnant in 1933. He made two further first-class appearances for the Minor Counties cricket team in 1934 and 1936, playing twice against
Oxford University
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at the
University Parks
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.
In his three first-class appearances he scored a total of 113 runs with a high score of 47, while with the ball he took 5 wickets with best figures of 3/80.
He continued to play minor counties cricket for Berkshire until 1936, by which point he had made 73 appearances.
He was made an
MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
Molal ...
in the 1945 honours list.
He died at his home, Bear Place, at
Hare Hatch
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near
Wargrave
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in
Berkshire, on 4 June 1967, and was succeeded as the 3rd Baron upon his death by his son,
James Wogan Remnant.
His brother
Peter
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, and uncle,
Cunliffe Gosling, were both first-class cricketers.
References
External links
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1895 births
1967 deaths
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