George Edward Robinson was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, who played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Oxford University Cricket Club

Oxford University Cricket Club

Oxford University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team, representing the University of Oxford. It plays its home games at the University Parks in Oxford, England...

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Life

Robinson was born on 13 March 1861 in Deytheur, Oswestry

Oswestry

Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....

, Shropshire

Shropshire

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. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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. He won his first "Blue" in 1881, when he played in the university match

The University Match (cricket)

The University Match in a cricketing context is generally understood to refer to the annual fixture between Oxford University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Cricket Club...

 against Cambridge

Cambridge University Cricket Club

Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...

. He won his Blue in the following two seasons as well. In his three Blues matches, he took 6 wickets and scored 15 runs

Run (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...

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In all, he played 17 first-class matches for Oxford University, scoring 168 runs in 11 innings, at an average of 8.84 with a high score of 28; he was primarily a bowler, and took 80 wickets at an average of 17.16, with best bowling figures of 6 wickets for 47 runs. James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual

James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual

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 described him as "an apathetic bat and field". He died on 30 November 1944 in Acton, Staffordshire

Acton, Staffordshire

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