Edward Austen
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| Full name | Edward Thomas Austen | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 January 1820 Chawton, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 June 1908 (aged 88) Barfrestone, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1844 | MCC | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 5 January 2014 | |||||||||||||||
Edward Thomas Austen (28 January 1820 – 10 June 1908) was an English cricketer. Austen's batting style is unknown.
The son of Sir Francis William Austen and Mary Gibson, Austen was born at Chawton, Hampshire. He was a nephew to the novelist Jane Austen.[1] He studied at St John's College, Oxford, gaining his BA in 1846 and his MA in 1850.[2] He played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University in 1844 at the Magdalen Ground, Oxford.[3] In a match which Oxford University won by 5 runs, Austen was run out for a duck in the MCC's first-innings, while he ended their second not out on 3.[4]
Austen was later the rector at Barfrestone, Kent, a position he held from 1854 until his death on 10 June 1908.[2][1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Jane Austen family". www.janeaustensfamily.co.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
- ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Edward Austen". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
- ^ "Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1844". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 January 2014.