David S.G. Burton
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David Stuart Gaselee Burton was a first-class cricketer
Cricketer
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

 who played 10 first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 matches for MCC
Marylebone Cricket Club
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 on the tour of the West Indies in 1910-11
English cricket team in West Indies in 1910-11
The sixth team of English cricketers toured the West Indies in the 1910-11 season. For the first time the MCC organised the tour. The team was captained by AWF Somerset and played a total of 12 matches, of which 11 are regarded as first-class, between February and April 1911.A party of 11 was...

.

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 tour and never played first-class cricket again afterwards. His cousin Cecil Burton
Cecil Burton
David Cecil Fowler Burton, better known as Cecil Burton, was a first-class cricketer, who played for Cambridge University , MCC and Yorkshire . He captained Yorkshire from 1919 to 1921.He was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England...

 was also on the tour and later captained Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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; Cecil's brother, Claude
Claude Burton (cricketer)
Robert Claude Burton was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University and Yorkshire....

, played first-class cricket for Oxford University
Oxford University Cricket Club
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 and Yorkshire.

He died at Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor, Berkshire
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on January 24, 1948.
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