Charles William Lloyd Bulpett (18 August 1852 – 11 July 1939) was

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, Big Game Hunter and an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er active 1877–82 who played for

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le ...

. He was born in

Chertsey Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, southwest of central London. It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by Earconwald, St Erkenwald, and gained a municipal charter, market charter from Henry I of Engla ...

; died in

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.Charles Bulpett at ESPNcricinfo
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Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

and

Trinity College, Oxford Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in E ...

, he was a double blue in both Cricket and Athletics. He met with H A Hamilton of Trinity College, Cambridge, to discuss setting up the first Varsity Rugby Match in 1872. He also played in Oxford's victorious team that year. He emigrated to Kenya in 1904.

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1852 births 1939 deaths English cricketers Middlesex cricketers British emigrants to British Kenya English barristers People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Cricketers from Chertsey {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub