Edward Austen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Austen

English cleric and cricketer

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1820

Place of Birth: Chawton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1908

Profession: Anglican priest, cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.