Robert Armstrong (cricketer)

Robert George Chadwick Armstrong (12 August 1836 – 9 June 1863) was an English cricketer. He was born at Gravesend, Kent and played nine times for Kent County Cricket Club between 1859 and 1861.

Robert Armstrong
Personal information
Full name
Robert George Chadwick Armstrong
Born(1836-08-12)12 August 1836
Gravesend, Kent, England
Died9 June 1863(1863-06-09) (aged 26)
Peckham, Surrey, England
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1859–1861Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 9
Runs scored 76
Batting average 6.90
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 10*
Balls bowled 44
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricInfo, 2 January 2012

Armstrong was the son of Samuel Francis and Agnes Armstrong. His father was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and as a young man Robert played cricket for Gravesend and in the Peckham Rye area where he lived for most of his life.[1][2]

He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent against Middlesex at Southgate in 1859, making a pair on debut.[1] Armstrong went on to make total of nine first-class appearances for the county,[lower-alpha 1] the last of which came against England in 1861.[4] He was considered a batsman with "good style" who had once promised "future excellence"[5] but in his 13 innings only once made a double figure score, 10 not out against an England XI at Lord's in 1860.[1] He was considered "slow" as a fielder.[5]

Armstrong played for a range of other sides in other matches, including for United and All England sides a number of times.[4] He died of tuberculosis at Peckham in what was then Surrey in June 1863 aged 26.[1][2][6]

Notes
  1. Three of Armstrong's appearances were in Kent sides with 15 or 16 players, all against England XIs. These matches are not considered first-class by Kent County Cricket Club sources but are accepted as first-class by other sources.[3]

References
  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 30. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. Milton H (1999) The Bat and Ball Gravesend: a first-class cricket history, p.127. Gravesend: Gravesend Cricket Club. ISBN 0-9536041-0-1
  3. Kent Records, in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2018, p.141. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
  4. Robert Armstrong, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-12-29. (subscription required)
  5. Haygarth A Scores and Biographies, quoted in Carlaw op. cit.
  6. Robert Armstrong, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
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