Robert Augustus de Lasaux (24 November 1834 – 7 December 1914) was an English amateur cricketer. He was born at Canterbury in Kent in 1834, the son of the city coroner and was educated in Canterbury and in Kennington.[1][2][3]
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| Full name | Robert Augustus De Lasaux | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 November 1834 Canterbury, Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 December 1914 (aged 80) Canterbury, Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1858 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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De Lasaux made his first-class debut for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1858. He made two further known first-class appearances in 1858, one for Kent County Cricket Club against England and another for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at the St Lawrence Ground.[4] He was one of the original members of the amateur Band of Brothers cricket team and of St Lawrence Cricket Club in Canterbury[1][2] and was described in his Wisden obituary as "a good fast-medium round-armed bowler" and a "very smart" fielder.[2]
De Lasaux died at Canterbury in 1914 aged 80.[2] His obituary in The Times records that he was "an expert diabolo player" as a youth and had revived his skills for an exhibition in 1907.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Death of Mr R. A. De Lasaux". The Times. No. 40722. London. 10 December 1914. p. 11.
- ^ a b c d Mr Robert Augustus de Lasaux, Obituaries in 1914, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1915, Retrieved 20 May 2017.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 140–141. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 7 August 2022.)
- ^ Robert de Lasaux, CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 May 2017.