Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet (17 August 1875 – 10 July 1916) was an English historian and

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er who played for

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from 1895 to 1898, for

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from 1897 to 1903 and for

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(MCC) from 1899 to 1903. He was killed serving in

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Biography

Cunliffe was born in

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, London, the son of

Sir Robert Cunliffe, 5th Baronet Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (17 January 1839 – 18 June 1905) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1885. Ca ...

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and his wife Eleanor Susan Emily Leigh daughter of Egerton Leigh. He was educated

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and at

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and played cricket for the university from 1895 to 1898. In 1897 he made his debut for Middlesex and in 1899 began playing for MCC. Cunliffe was a left-hand batsman and played 85 innings in 56 first-class matches with an average of 15.36 and a top score of 70. He was a left-arm medium pace bowler and took 235 first-class wickets with an average of 21.78 and a best performance of 8 for 26. Cunliffe also played non-first class county cricket for

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, in two matches in 1895. Cunliffe became a Fellow of

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and the first lecturer in military history at

, 1905–1908. in this capacity he worked closely with the history tutor

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. He wrote ''The History of the Boer War''. He inherited the

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on the death of his father in 1905. During

, Cunliffe served with the

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and reached the rank of major. He died of wounds at

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, France. He was buried at Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert, Somme. He is commemorated by a prayer book in the chapel at

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References

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