William Robert Marshall Cockburn (26 April 1891 – 1 September 1957) was a Scottish cricket

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...

er who played once for the Scotland national cricket team in 1921.

Born in Paisley

Paisley

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 in 1891 and educated at Glasgow High School

High School of Glasgow

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, he played three times for the Federated Malay States

Federated Malay States cricket team

The Federated Malay States cricket team was a team that represented the Federated Malay States in international cricket matches between 1905 and 1940. Cricket has been played in Peninsular Malaysia since the 1880s, and the Federated Malay States usually combined with the Straits Settlements cricket...

 against the Straits Settlements

Straits Settlements cricket team

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 between 1919 and 1921, before playing his only match for Scotland, a first-class

First-class cricket

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 match against Ireland in August 1921. He died in Winchester

Winchester

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in 1957.