Robert Barbour (cricketer)
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | Robert Roy Pitty Barbour |
Born | Ashfield, New South Wales | 29 March 1899
Died | 29 December 1994 Berwick, Victoria | (aged 95)
Relations | Eric Barbour (brother) |
Source: Cricinfo, 22 March 2017 |
Robert Barbour (29 March 1899 – 29 December 1994) was an Australian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Oxford University Cricket Club and Queensland between 1919 and 1923.[1] He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He returned to Australia and was warden of Melbourne University Union 1940–54 and senior lecturer in classics 1954–67.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Barbour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ Barbour, George Pitty (1867–1951), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1979
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Categories:
- 1899 births
- 1994 deaths
- Australian cricketers
- Oxford University cricketers
- Queensland cricketers
- Cricketers from Sydney
- Australian Rhodes Scholars
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
- Australian male tennis players
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Australian cricket biography, 1890s birth stubs