Robert Augustus Bayford (13 March 1838 – 24 August 1922) was an English

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er and

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Biography

Bayford was born in

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, and educated at Kensington Grammar School and

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. He played cricket for eleven different teams at 30

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from 1857 to 1867, but was mostly involved with

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(MCC). He was a right-handed

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and occasional

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who

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roundarm slow pace. He scored 822 runs with a highest score of 92 and held seven catches with four stumpings. He took twelve

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s with a best analysis of four for 42. After Cambridge, Bayford studied law at the

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. He was

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in 1863 and became a QC in 1885. He died at Netley Hill,

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1838 births 1922 deaths English cricketers Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Cambridge University cricketers Cambridge Town Club cricketers Gentlemen of the North cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Middlesex cricketers Southgate cricketers Surrey cricketers English King's Counsel Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers R. D. Walker's XI cricketers People from Botley, Hampshire People from the Borough of Guildford {{england-cricket-bio-1830s-stub