Claude Burton (cricketer)
Robert Claude Burton(11 April 1891 – 30 April 1971)[1]was an Englishfirst-class cricketer,who played forOxford UniversityandYorkshire.
Burton was born inBridlington,East Riding of Yorkshire,England,the younger brother ofCecil Burton,whocaptainedYorkshire at cricket afterWorld War I.Burton was educated atMalvern College[2]andBrasenose College, Oxford,and appeared in several matches for Oxford University from 1911 to 1914, without ever becoming a regular player. In the 1914 season, he made two appearances for Yorkshire, scoring 47 in his first match againstSomerset,and taking useful wickets in the second againstGloucestershire.[1]After the war, Burton played only two more first-class matches: once for theDemobilised Officers'side against a combined Army and Navy team atLord'sin 1919, and then, in 1928, for the amateur Harlequins team that played the1928 West Indies touristsatEastbourne.
Burton was a right-handed batsman who usually batted in the lower middle order, though in his final game he opened the innings. He also bowled right-arm medium-fast.
He became a house master, and was in charge of the cricket, atEastbourne College,and died nearby atStone Cross,nearPevensey,East Sussex,in April 1971, aged 80.
References
[edit]- ^abWarner, David (2011).The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook(113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 365.ISBN978-1-905080-85-4.
- ^"Obituaries in 1971: Claude Burton".Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.Retrieved11 January2009.
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[edit]- 1891 births
- 1971 deaths
- English cricketers
- Oxford University cricketers
- Yorkshire cricketers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Schoolteachers from Sussex
- People from Bridlington
- People educated at Malvern College
- Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Harlequins cricketers
- Cricketers from Yorkshire
- Demobilised Officers cricketers
- People from Wealden District
- Military personnel from the East Riding of Yorkshire
- British Army soldiers