Robert Bayford
Robert Augustus Bayford QC (13 March 1838 – 24 August 1922) was an English cricketer and barrister.
Biography
Bayford was born in Albury, Surrey, and educated at Kensington Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1] He played cricket for eleven different teams at 30 first-class matches from 1857 to 1867, but was mostly involved with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicketkeeper who bowled roundarm slow pace. He scored 822 runs with a highest score of 92 and held seven catches with four stumpings. He took twelve wickets with a best analysis of four for 42.[2]
After Cambridge, Bayford studied law at the Inner Temple. He was called to the Bar in 1863 and became a QC in 1885.[3]
He died at Netley Hill, Botley, Hampshire.
Notes
- ^ "Bayford, Robert Augustus (BFRT855RA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Robert Bayford at CricketArchive
- ^ "No. 25486". The London Gazette. 8 July 1885. p. 3061.
- 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 Queen's Counsel
- English cricket biography, 1830s birth stubs