Robert Samuel Battiscombe (13 April 1799 – 13 March 1881) was an English first-class

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er associated with

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who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in two matches from 1819 to 1821, totalling 29 runs with a highest score of 17. Battiscombe was born at

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and educated at

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and

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. He was admitted to the Bar as a lawyer in 1827, but later became a Church of England clergyman, serving as

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, London, from 1835 to 1840 and Barkway with Reed, Hertfordshire, from 1840 to his death in 1881 aged 81.

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