Robert Jasper Stuart King, also known as Robert Stuart-King (May 10, 1909 — May 11, 1992), was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricketer

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

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Family

King was born in Leigh-on-Sea

Leigh-on-Sea

Leigh-on-Sea , sometimes called Leigh, is a civil parish in Essex, England. It is part of Southend-on-Sea for administrative purposes. It became a civil parish in 1996. The council tax was increased to support it. A town council was formed. Leigh is the only parish in Southend...

 to a family of Anglican clergymen. His father, Canon Robert Stuart King

Robert King (footballer)

Canon Robert Stuart King was an English international footballer and Anglican clergyman.-Family:Robert Stuart King was born into a family of clergymen...

 was Rector of Saint Clement's Church, Leigh-on-Sea, from 1892 to 1950, and his grandfather, Rev. Walker King, had been Rector of the same church from 1859 to 1892. Among his other clerical relatives was his great-uncle, Rt. Rev. Edward King

Edward King (English bishop)

Edward King was an Anglican bishop.-Life:He was the second son of the Revd Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector of Stone, Kent, and grandson of the Revd Walker King, Bishop of Rochester; his nephew was the Revd Robert Stuart King, who played football for England in 1882.King graduated...

, who was Bishop of Lincoln

Bishop of Lincoln

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 from 1885 to 1910 and was famously prosecuted for ritualistic practices.

Cricketing career and later life

King had been captain of cricket at Felsted School

Felsted School

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Later, he was a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

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. He represented Essex in one match during the 1928 season, scoring just three runs from the lower-order, and conceding 20 runs from 7 overs in the ball in his two bowling spells.

King moved to South Africa in his early fifties, and umpired 29 first-class cricket matches in total, mostly in the Currie Cup

Currie Cup

The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring , featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces...

 during the 1960s and 1970s.

He moved back to England late in his life, after umpiring his final game at the age of 70, and died at Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, the day after his 93rd birthday.