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Robert George Chadwick Armstrong (12 August 1836 – 9 June 1863) was an English cricketer. He was born at Gravesend, Kent and played nine times for Kent County Cricket Club between 1859 and 1861.
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Full name | Robert George Chadwick Armstrong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Gravesend, Kent, England | 12 August 1836||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 June 1863 26) Peckham, Surrey, England | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1859–1861 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 2 January 2012 |
Armstrong was the son of Samuel Francis and Agnes Armstrong. His father was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and as a young man Robert played cricket for Gravesend and in the Peckham Rye area where he lived for most of his life.[1][2]
He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent against Middlesex at Southgate in 1859, making a pair on debut.[1] Armstrong went on to make total of nine first-class appearances for the county,[lower-alpha 1] the last of which came against England in 1861.[4] He was considered a batsman with "good style" who had once promised "future excellence"[5] but in his 13 innings only once made a double figure score, 10 not out against an England XI at Lord's in 1860.[1] He was considered "slow" as a fielder.[5]
Armstrong played for a range of other sides in other matches, including for United and All England sides a number of times.[4] He died of tuberculosis at Peckham in what was then Surrey in June 1863 aged 26.[1][2][6]
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