Robert Marsham (cricketer)

Robert Henry Bullock Marsham (3 September 1833 – 5 April 1913) was an English cricketer, who made appearances for Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Primarily a bowler, Marsham took 35 wickets with his slow-medium roundarm deliveries. [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31273/31273.html|title=Robert Marsham player profile|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2008-09-13] His greatest achievement was to bowl MCC to victory against a much stronger Surrey side in 1859, where he took twelve wickets in the match.cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228029.html|title=Robert Marsham obituary|publisher="Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"|accessdate=2008-09-13] [cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1156.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Surrey Club in 1859|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2008-09-13] He made many appearances for I Zingari, and also turned out for England against Kent in 1860.

A magistrate in his later years, Marsham died in Canterbury in 1913.

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