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Jan 28, 1820 Chawton, England, United Kingdom Died on 10 Jun 1908 (aged 88)
English cleric and cricketer
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About Edward Austen
- Edward Thomas Austen (28 January 1820 – 10 June 1908) was an English cricketer.
- Austen's batting style is unknown. The son of Sir Francis William Austen and Mary Gibson, Austen was born at Chawton, Hampshire.
- He was a nephew to the novelist Jane Austen.
- He studied at St John's College, Oxford, gaining his BA in 1846 and his MA in 1850.
- He played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University in 1844 at the Magdalen Ground, Oxford.
- In a match which Oxford University won by 5 runs, Austen was run out for a duck in the MCC's first-innings, while he ended their second not out on 3.Austen was later the rector at Barfrestone, Kent, a position he held from 1854 until his death on 10 June 1908.
