Arthur Barnard Trollope was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

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Trollope was educated at Marlborough

Marlborough College

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, Tonbridge

Tonbridge School

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 and St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge

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. He made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut for Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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 against the Cambridge Town

Cambridge Town Club

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 and Country Club in 1856. Trollope made one further appearance for the University against the Cambridge Town Club in 1857. While playing for the University, he was severely injured by a catapult, an early bowling machine

Bowling machine

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, and was unable to play in the Varsity match

The University Match (cricket)

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In 1861, he represented pre-county club Hampshire

Hampshire county cricket teams

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 in a single first-class match against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In 1863, he played a single non first-class match for the newly formed Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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 against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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Trollope died at Cowlam

Cowlam

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 on 22 April 1872.

Family

Trollope's nephews, Cecil Burton

Cecil Burton

David Cecil Fowler Burton, better known as Cecil Burton, was a first-class cricketer, who played for Cambridge University , MCC and Yorkshire . He captained Yorkshire from 1919 to 1921.He was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England...

 and Claude Burton

Claude Burton (cricketer)

Robert Claude Burton was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University and Yorkshire....

 both played first-class cricket.

External links

• Arthur Trollope at Cricinfo
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• Arthur Trollope at CricketArchive
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