Charles Edward Orman or, after 1912, Charles Edward Lintorn-Orman (6 September 1859 – 11 February 1927) was an English soldier and

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er. Orman was commissioned in 1878 from the

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, and was promoted to major in the

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in 1895. He played two matches for

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in 1896. In 1893, at St Stephen's Church, South Kensington, he married Blanche Lintorn Simmons, daughter of

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Sir

Lintorn Simmons Field Marshal Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons, (12 February 1821 – 14 February 1903) was a British Army officer. Early in his career he served as Inspector of Railways, Secretary of the Railways Commission and then Secretary of the Railway De ...

. The Orman family adopted the surname of Lintorn-Orman by

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in 1912. His daughter,

Rotha Lintorn-Orman Rotha Beryl Lintorn Lintorn-Orman (born Rotha Beryl Lintorn Orman, 7 February 1895 – 10 March 1935) was a British political activist and World War I veteran who founded the British Fascists, the first avowedly fascist movement to appear in Br ...

, founded the

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* 1859 births 1927 deaths Military personnel of British India English cricketers Essex cricketers Essex Regiment officers People from Roorkee Cricketers from Uttarakhand 19th-century English sportsmen Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst British people in colonial India 19th-century British Army personnel {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub