Cuthbert Fairbanks-Smith, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1885
Date of Death: 25-May-1948
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Cuthbert Fairbanks-Smith
- Cuthbert Fairbanks-Smith (18 March 1885 – 25 May 1948) played first-class cricket for Somerset in two matches in 1921.
- He was born at Lee, London and died at Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex. In his two cricket appearances, Fairbanks-Smith was identified as "Major Fairbanks-Smith" and by 1921 he had been an army officer for 18 years.
- He joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1903 as a second lieutenant.
- The following year, 1904, he transferred to the Middlesex Regiment, and in 1906 he was promoted to full lieutenant.
- In 1909 it was reported in the London Gazette that he had been seconded, but there are no details of where.
- By 1915, when he next appears in the Gazette listings, he was being transferred from Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry to the Durham Light Infantry with the rank of major.Fairbanks-Smith's cricket career was brief and undistinguished.
- Somerset played the two university sides, first Oxford and then Cambridge in consecutive matches in a single week in mid-May.
- According to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Somerset started the week at Oxford in some disarray: "Somerset were in such a plight that they had to complete their side by including four Oxford men," it said.
- Three of the four were certainly Kenneth Blaikie, Louis Wharton and John Frazer – the first two went on to play other matches for Somerset, but Frazer's county cricket was otherwise for Sussex.
- It is not clear who the fourth was, but as all the other players in the Oxford match had played before for Somerset, Wisden could have meant Fairbanks-Smith.
- Either way, he batted at No 10, made 0 and 6, took one catch and did not bowl.
- Alone of the four Oxford conscripts, Fairbanks-Smith accompanied the Somerset side on to Cambridge, where he was 0 not out at the end of the Somerset first innings and then "absent" in the second innings.
- He did not appear in first-class cricket afterwards.
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