David Cecil Fowler Burton, better known as Cecil Burton, (13 September 1887 – 24 September 1971) was a first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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er, who played for Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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 (1907-1908), MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 (1910-1922) and Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 (1907-1921). He captained Yorkshire from 1919 to 1921.

He was born in Bridlington

Bridlington

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

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. A right-handed batsman, Burton scored 3,057 runs in his 130 first-class matches, with a highest score of 142* against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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. His other century, 110, came against Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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. He averaged 20.24 with the bat, and took 54 catches in the field. His brother Claude Burton

Claude Burton (cricketer)

Robert Claude Burton was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University and Yorkshire....

, cousin David S.G. Burton

David S.G. Burton

David Stuart Gaselee Burton was a first-class cricketer who played 10 first-class matches for MCC on the tour of the West Indies in 1910-11.Born Stuart Gaselee Burton at Bath, Somerset on March 31, 1888, Burton batted mostly in the lower order, and did not make many runs. He did not bowl on the...

 and uncle Arthur Trollope

Arthur Trollope

Arthur Barnard Trollope was an English cricketer.Trollope was educated at Marlborough, Tonbridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against the Cambridge Town and Country Club in 1856. Trollope made one further appearance for the University...

, all played first-class cricket.

Burton died at the age of 74 in September 1971, in Chertsey

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, Surrey

Surrey

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