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Robert Barbour (cricketer)

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Robert Barbour
Personal information
Full name
Robert Roy Pitty Barbour
Born(1899-03-29)29 March 1899
Ashfield, New South Wales
Died29 December 1994(1994-12-29) (aged 95)
Berwick, Victoria
RelationsEric Barbour (brother)
Source: Cricinfo, 22 March 2017

Robert Barbour (29 March 1899 – 29 December 1994) was an Australian cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Oxford University Cricket Club and Queensland between 1919 and 1923.[1] He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He returned to Australia and was warden of Melbourne University Union 1940–54 and senior lecturer in classics 1954–67.[2]

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  1. ^ "Robert Barbour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ^ Barbour, George Pitty (1867–1951), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1979
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