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About Robert Poore
Brigadier-General Robert Montagu Poore, was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and cricketer who, while serving in the British Transvaal Colony in 1896, played in three Test matches for the South African cricket team. He featured most prominently in first-class cricket playing county cricket in England for Hampshire between 1898 and 1906, where he gained a reputation as a batsman, having notable success in 1899 when he was the highest first-class run-scorer in England. Alongside playing for Hampshire, Poore also played first-class cricket in India for the Europeans in the Bombay Presidency Matches. An all-round sportsman, he was also a capable swordsman, and polo, tennis, racquets, and squash player, in addition to being a skilled marksman. Poore had success in the Royal Naval and Military Tournaments, being adjudged the best man-at-arms on four occasions.
Everything about Robert Poore →- Occupation
- cricketer, military officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- Born
- March 20, 1866
- Died
- July 14, 1938