Percival Robert Brinton 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...

 cricketer

Cricketer

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, who played one first-class

First-class cricket

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 match, for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 against Oxford University

Oxford University Cricket Club

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 in 1904. He made just 1 in his only innings before being dismissed by Adolph von Ernsthausen.

Brinton was born at Moor Hall, Lower Mitton

Stourport-on-Severn

Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley...

, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

, the son of John Brinton

John Brinton

John Brinton was an English carpet manufacturer and a Liberal politician.Brinton was born at Kidderminster, the son of Henry Brinton a carpet manufacturer. He joined the family carpet manufacturing firm John Brinton & Co as a partner in 1848. Brintons had a large factory at Stourport a town noted...

 Chairman of Brintons

Brintons

Brintons is a British manufacturer of carpets. It was founded in 1783 by William Brinton at Hill Pool in Chaddesley, Kidderminster to manufacture spun yarns....

 carpet manufacturers and MP for Kidderminster. Percival's brother Reginald

Reginald Brinton

Reginald Seymour Brinton was an English industrialist and cricketer, who played 13 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the early twentieth century....

, also chairman of Brintons, served as Mayor of Kidderminster, and made 13 appearances for Worcestershire.

Brinton died in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

 at the age of 85.

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